Posted on April 30, 2008 by lenina
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When my BF comes up tomorrow, we’re going to do some nice touristy things. I’ve lived in Edinburgh now for nearly 6 years, so I pretty much know it inside out (unlike the monster that is London, Edinburgh is quite compact and walkable).
What I’ve done is picked out a couple of new outdoor [...]
Filed under: Culture, Edinburgh, Friends, Scotland | Tagged: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, South Queensferry, United Kingdom, Water of Leith | No Comments »
Posted on April 29, 2008 by lenina
I’ve never thought about joining a pension plan, or think in any way, shape or form about my retirement (well, other than wanting to retire at 40 - though not sure as it’s only 6 years away! Might be too early after all ).
However, my current employer apparently has a really good pension. It’s [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by lenina
Abominable is the case of one Josef Fritzl, who locked his daugher in a cellar for 24 years and fucked her till she was raw and sore and had borne him 7 children.
He had been raping and fucking his daughter since she was eleven.
He then locked her in a cellar at 18, to rape her [...]
Filed under: Feminism, News | Tagged: Amstetten, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Fritzl, fucking, Josef Fritzl, Kerstin, Lower Austria, Natascha Kampusch, rape, rapist, Vienna | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 27, 2008 by lenina
WordPress have announced a new feature that suggests posts (from your own blog or the blogosphere) based on what it thinks is related to whatever it is you’re blogging about. Sounds like a semantic app.
At the web 2.0 expo they also announced the upcoming Monotone - theme, which is basically a photo-blog template. It looks [...]
Filed under: Culture, Internet, News, Web 2.0, WordPress | Tagged: Web 2.0, WordPress, Blog, News, tools, Templates, semantic | No Comments »
Posted on April 26, 2008 by lenina
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I had planned to drive somewhere e.g. Falkirk Wheel, and do some touristy things when my BF visits me next week-end.
However, due to the Grangemouth Strike this looks unlikely. At least Edinburgh is so beautiful that you can easily fill touristy days, without even spending all that much (it’s got so much free [...]
Filed under: Daily life, Edinburgh, Friends, News, Scotland | Tagged: Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Falkirk Wheel, Grangemouth, petrol, Public transport, Scotland, strike | No Comments »
Posted on April 25, 2008 by lenina
Today, my wee neighbour R. moved with his family to a new house, more or less down the road (a few streets away).
Apparently it happened late morning/early afternoon. The man with the dogs (nosey, always walks his dogs ‘coincidentally’ when things are happening on the estate) told me all about it as I got [...]
Filed under: Daily life, Edinburgh, Friends | Tagged: Friends, neighbours, relationship, community, nosey, council estate | No Comments »
Posted on April 24, 2008 by lenina
Lately, all new WordPress comments that need approval have been ending up in my spam filter. Also, gmail chat has reappeared on the left handside, even though I set it to not be there
Looking at the top right corner, I can see a link has appeared to ‘older version’ - and when you [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by lenina
I’ve just started using BBC iPlayer, more info on that some other time. Just an observation that their wee icon looks just like the Skype one - only it’s pink
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by lenina
Tonight I watched a programme on BBC3, where young adults go to India to work in a sweatshop, so they understand where their clothes are coming from. It’s called Blood, Sweat and T-shirts.
Very good actually, and reminded me that I need to buy more clothes in charity shops. The problem is that I’m currently short [...]
Filed under: Edinburgh, Work | Tagged: Edinburgh, charity shops, ethical shopping, sweatshops, india | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 21, 2008 by lenina
In London this week-end my chav friend J. (22) told me that his next tattoo will read:
White and Proud
I asked him why, and which whites are included in this pride thing:
English? Yes
German? Yes
Polish? Noooooooooooooo
Hungarian? Yes
This doesn’t make sense on two counts:
Polish people ARE white
How can you be proud of the colour of your skin?
I told [...]
Filed under: Culture, Daily life, Friends, London | Tagged: English, fuck off, Scotland, Friends, chavs, chav, Culture, racism, tattoo | 4 Comments »