Monthly Archives: July 2010

What a to-do to die today

Stephen Col­bert inter­viewed Kevin Kline on the 27th of July 2010 epis­ode of the Col­bert Report. A lively exchange ensued with the high­light being a recital of the fol­low­ing, pre­sum­ably, theatre warm-up. What a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to two; a thing dis­tinctly hard to say, but harder still to do. We’ll

XKCD: University Website

I Have Terrible Friends

I do post a lot of blas­phem­ous things on this site, and in my Twits as well. How­ever, I have yet to pro­duce a crit­ical attack on Islam in my Face­book wall, simply because in my coun­try, it is pos­sible to get your­self arres­ted for a Face­book com­ment in Malay­sia. That said, I pos­ted my

Phil Jones has my Sympathies.

NewS­cient­ist just inter­viewed the Phil Jones, a cli­mate researcher work­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of East Anglia, and cent­ral fig­ure of the whole Cli­mateg­ate media ker­fuffle. It is cer­tainly quite an illu­min­at­ing art­icle who think that emails between sci­ent­ists should be open to pub­lic view as well, because as Tre­vor Dav­ies points out: We regard emails

Humour: Your Kids

I Cooked Curry

It’s a rainy day in the trop­ics of Borneo. The star anise, cin­na­mon sticks and other spices sim­mer in a pool of hot mar­gar­ine, aro­matic exotic fla­vours fill the air. Then the curry powder coated the shred­ded cab­bage leaves join­ing the grow­ing stew of onion, gar­lic, and ginger. The mouth waters with anti­cip­a­tion as chunks

Site Problems Resolved

I am glad my friend run­ning the server this site is hos­ted on is a patient man. For I insul­ted the server sev­eral times when the prob­lem was a chmod issue which was mys­ter­i­ously intro­duced some­how by the cache plu­gins. Any­way, I am glad to be back, and I am enjoy­ing the cleaner look­ing Eru­dite