Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

What a state the World is in.
Do you laugh at how ridiculous this is or cry at the level of fear that has been generated when you read a story like this?
Dildo triggered terror alert
Isn’t it amazing how sexually accepting the press appears to be in Norway?

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I’ve just heard on BBC Radio that a version of Edvard Munch’s world famous painting, “The Scream”, has been stolen by an armed robbers from the Munch Gallery in Norway at about 10:00 today. It’s news to me, but I now understand that Munch painted a number of versions of The Scream and this isn’t […]

The Chief Executive of the UK Post Office, David Mills, was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning. He was being interviewed about the re-launch of the Saving stamps service, which was last seen in 1976. Members of the public are able to deposit money with the Post Office, if they still […]

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we”.Bush said on Thursday to the senior members of the Pentagon.
Reuters - Bush bitten by own soundbite

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Back in 1996, we moved our Web business into offices with David Bosdet at Rivington Street, Old Street. The area has changed hugely in the years between, but back then it was reasonably edgy.
After a couple of months a design company called microdot moved in to the ground floor. Chatting to Brian, who ran […]

You realise that you’re getting old when there are whole portions of language that you don’t have the faintest idea what it means.
I came across one of these today - Chav. In my youth the probably equivalent was probably Casuals - people who wore ’sporting’ attire in pastel shades - Lacoste, Sergio Tacchini, etc. […]

It was with some trepidation that I made the trip to the tube station today after hearing endless press about how it was going to be completely closed down.
I’d looked at the Tube Web site and was pleasantly surprised to see that trains were running on the Northern Line and indeed they were. I waited […]

BT has recently pushed one of my home phone lines on their Option 1 call plan, which is now costing me considerably more money than previously.
I called them today to transfer it back to something less expensive, their Light user scheme, where you are rebated if few calls are made. I learnt that if you […]

Wow, I’m in a slight state of shock.
I called BT today to sort out a query and got a “We’re really busy … long queue … blah, blah, blah” message from them as normal, but then the automated attendant informed me that I put in a phone number that they could call me back on. […]

As we all know Microsoft has been in many legal battles but they are currently fighting a law firm for the size of their legal bill.
Microsoft feel the $258m (£146.7m) is excessive. The case lasted for five years, but just look at the charge rates …Mr Crew has billed Microsoft just over $3,000 an […]