tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56992262011-04-22T00:40:52.073Z525,600 MinutesA year in redemptionPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1155115070473310702006-08-09T08:29:00.000Z2006-08-09T13:00:22.520ZAnother 1028160 minutesAnother birthday swings around for me and I find myself reminiscing over times gone by.I feel the lyrics from Paul Simon's "Ten Years" sum up today quite well.You are moving on a crowded streetThrough various shades of peopleIn the summers harshest heatA story in your eye will speak until your minds at easeTen years come and gone so fastI might as well be dreamingSunny daysPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1136132948058569522006-01-01T16:28:00.000Z2006-01-01T16:40:43.423ZHitting Women (by one of my alter-egos - "Dasheese")The writer Don Spears, in his 1991 literary masterpiece In Search of Goodpussy, famously put forth the question of whether or not using violence against women is ever justifiable. He suggests that this is one of those deeply personal issues, like one's position on the death penalty, and that it's up to each individual to decide.Which probably Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1123585452511989312005-08-09T08:54:00.000Z2005-08-12T10:59:49.690Z1,028,160 minutesToday is my birthday and I am 26 years of age. It has been 1,028,160 minutes since I last blogged.Since my last blog I quit my last job and returned to University to do a masters degree and am now ironically I am back in a job doing what I was doing before I left University and for my troubles I find myself 2 years older.Is this self pity or whining? no just resignation to the Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1061925805436050612003-08-26T19:23:00.000Z2003-08-26T19:23:25.453ZA nation of spivs
I have just finished reading a really great book by Donald Thomas called "An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War".
This book really was a inisight because the second world war is rosily remembered as a time when the British people buried their differences to work together against a common enemy - a period of unity in adversity,Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1061662956395605622003-08-23T18:22:00.000Z2003-08-23T23:31:29.513ZIsrael - Palestine: Facts Worth Noting
I went to the barber today. I saw two young brothers probably 9 and 12 play fighting with Mandela (a friend who cuts my hair). I heard him taunting them over the last game of football they played in the Park, "England 4 Palestine 0" he said.
I asked Mandela if I had heard right and he told me "yes, these boys are from Palestine". Their parents had just Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1061586779844677962003-08-22T21:12:00.000Z2003-08-23T20:49:58.633ZIts been a long day today and I had a sudden "demand" made on me for some code. I've never known my boss to panic so much, but anyway I got some code working so he can go on holiday next weekend with some peace of mind.
I will need to get alot done in the next few days to ensure I don't have to panic before I head off to Nigeria next month. Its been 4393 days since I last put foot on Nigerian Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1061501113185227572003-08-21T21:25:00.000Z2003-08-23T20:47:18.860ZNews junkies anonymous
But first a bit of background. Since the end of April after completing my Cooperative XML editing project I have been a little bored at work.
Whereas I used to be an 18 hrs a day workaholic and regularly used to bring my sleeping bag into my office, I now bearly hold concentration for more than 20 mins a day in total and can't wait to leave at 5:30.
I ashamedly Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5699226.post-1061376864725403832003-08-20T10:54:00.000Z2003-08-20T10:54:24.740ZOK let get this started. I've always thought most web logs crass. A chance for people to extol their junk philosophy or to express their supposed "uniqueness".
The weblog has been the perfect medium for these infidels, now armed with those stupid faces that dipict ones mood.
In my abundant arrogance I've gathered the nerve to get bored of reading so many sub standard weblogs and newspaper Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01009700887669384034noreply@blogger.com0