alfa.org.uk » misc http://www.alfa.org.uk somewhere only we know Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:14:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Hallowe’en http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/30/halloween/ http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/30/halloween/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:09:43 +0000 alfa http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/30/halloween/ Two points.

  1. When did Hallowe’en lose its apostrophe? It always had one when I was a kid; now it seems to be “halloween” everywhere…
  2. When did it become such a big deal? It seems every shop is full of cheap plastic pumpkins and witches hats. I’m sure someone could write something erudite about how the secularisation of Britain has combined with the shops’ need to have something to fill the space between “Back To School” and “Christmas”…
]]> http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/30/halloween/feed/ 1 Lego Ice Cubes http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/05/lego-ice-cubes/ http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/05/lego-ice-cubes/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:38:49 +0000 alfa http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/05/lego-ice-cubes/ I found this – it lets you make ice cubes in the shape of Lego bricks! How cool!

I have ordered some :-)

]]> http://www.alfa.org.uk/2006/10/05/lego-ice-cubes/feed/ 1 All Change http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/11/11/all-change/ http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/11/11/all-change/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:53:49 +0000 alfa http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/11/11/all-change/ wordpress database conversion. I hope it doesn’t put you off commenting [...]]]> As you’ve probably noticed, my website has moved. www.alfa.org.uk is the new link. WordPress is the new software. Dreamhost are the new hosting provider. Many apologies to everyone who has commented on here in the past – unfortunately the comments were lost during the blosxom->wordpress database conversion. I hope it doesn’t put you off commenting in the future.

You never know – I might actually start to write here now.

]]> http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/11/11/all-change/feed/ 1 BBC Headline http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/10/24/bbc-headline/ http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/10/24/bbc-headline/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:30:00 +0000 alfa http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/10/24/bbc-headline/ “Bosnia holds three suspected suicide bombers”.

That seems a remarkably stupid thing to do, to me…

]]> http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/10/24/bbc-headline/feed/ 0 Gerinoil http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/09/28/gerinoil/ http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/09/28/gerinoil/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:01:00 +0000 alfa http://www.alfa.org.uk/2005/09/28/gerinoil/ An article from Richard Dawkins.