Thanks to Anchit for giving me this link… a French group called the Nouvelles Vagues that reinterpret punk in a bossa nova style. http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/francais/music.html They receive four hats out of a possible five. xD.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=99975&item=6526951008&rd=1 xD.

Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his hope that the various Christian traditions will join together and the desire for Judaism and Christianity to celebrate their ‘joint spiritual heritage’. Isn’t that wonderful? Isn’t it something to warm the cockles of your heart that this new Pope may not be the Rottweiler of the Vatican but has [...]

Everyone seems to be expecting the Liberals to do well at the forthcoming election. The alternative to Labour, positive campaign, new baby and so on. The LibDems are split between the social democratic wing and the so-called ‘Orange Book’ group and at the moment it seems that the former are in the ascendance. Rather than [...]

The Tories’ manifesto says ‘we will ensure 24 hour surveillance at our ports’. It’s later come out that it’s only at 35 of the major air and sea ports. Fair enough, one might say; as Oliver Letwin said on the Today programme (yesterday, I think), if a container ship full of immigrants suddenly arrives at [...]

Just briefly, some of my favourite OpenSource and similar links. All free… www.OpenOffice.OrgPretty much exactly the same as MS Office, but with added functionality. The extra features are varied, but the most useful is the ability to make PDFs. Not just read, but make. www.mozilla.orgQuite a few people know about Mozilla, the alternative to MS [...]

It is time for a return to tradition in the Catholic Church, and I see that the Chamberlain of the Vatican has started on the way by calling out the Pope’s baptismal name three times to make sure he has popped his eternal clogs before smashing the fisherman’s ring and papal seal to make sure [...]

I’m not going to say much about the passing of the Pope as I don’t know much about him, don’t much care and, no doubt, the next few weeks will see the British general election pale into insignificance as every last damned pundit suddenly becomes an expert on the ins and outs of Vatican politics [...]

So, I finally dragged myself out of the pit where I live to take some photos.I wasn’t feeling terrifically up to a long trek, so I went up to Trafalgar Square, armed with camera, film and tripod intending to take some pictures of the fountains. OK, probably doesn’t sound terrifically interesting but I wanted to [...]