The £1 access is for 24 hours (hooray) rather than to midnight / 4.30 am like one day travelcards, so being on the South Bank to see the free stuff outside the National Theatre on Sunday lunchtime and wanting to … Continue reading
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I registered for this a week ago. This morning (OK, at 00:15) TfL sent me an email telling me there would be no usage charges "today". (They sent the same email at 02.something to someone else as well.) So, let's … Continue reading
OK, there's a Gmail account whose email I wish to have copy of in another Gmail account. Doing that with new messages is trivial, but there are about a thousand messages in there I want to backup too. What doesn't … Continue reading
Headline: Transvestite had sex with a dog at English Heritage castle Subheading: A transvestite had sex with a dog in the moat of an English Heritage castle .. because it's the moat that makes all the difference? Story here but … Continue reading
London Blackfriars station is currently being rebuilt. The new one will have exits on the south side of the river as well as the north, the first station to properly cross the Thames. It is based on what was originally … Continue reading
Thunderbird 3.x has a 'helpful' automatic account setup wizard. The bad news is that it is about as competent as Rincewind. I want to set up a new POP3 account, so I do File | New | Mail Account. It … Continue reading
Contrary to what JA sometimes thinks (he says, having seen her school exercise books this week) I am not obsessed by sport. I can happily watch almost nothing of the Premier League, for example. But I do like watching the … Continue reading
I expected the England-USA game to be a draw. First game, against a team many of whom play in England, bound to be well organised… see the series of tournament draws against Ireland for the likely result! But France's performance … Continue reading
If you see lots of films, you know that many of them could be better. One easy example would be to lose the opening scenes of the otherwise very good Black Book and to tell the story in a linear … Continue reading