http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:30:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been fighting with Virgin Media for about 6 weeks now to get our net access transferred over to the new flat. The entire time we've been paying for a service we do not have. This will definitely require remuneration when we finally get a service. We've been surviving thus far ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/07/05/240 Last year I was standing at the bus stop, awaiting my carriage home, and looking at the real-time LCD bus tracker next to me. If these things are really real-time, I thought to myself, they must be communicating with the buses and with each other so they know when buses ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/07/05/avoiding-waiting-for-the-bus-with-haskell Comment of the century, on the wonders of herbal medicine: The great thing about British herbal medicine, of course, is that it's automatically geared to be very compatible with your physiology. That's foreign herbs bad, native herbs good for those still boggling. http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/07/04/dangerous-foreign-herbs-are-killing-our-kids Saw this when we were at Sarah's house on Sunday --- an advert raising awareness of global warming, in British Sign Language. There's something unnatural about the signing that's hard to get past though. Maybe it's the lack of facial expression, which is very unusual. Thoughts? I haven't been able to ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/07/02/sign-language-in-global-warming-campaign We did eventually see something in the Edinburgh Film Festival, though it was pretty last minute. We saw WALL·E on the last day of the festival at the midday screening at the Filmhouse. The audience was full of parents and little kids. I was fully expecting to see someone from my ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/07/01/crushinator-gives-this-movie-two-thumbs-up Friday night was another of Radiohead's gigs on Glasgow Green. Many years ago they brought a whole tent to the green. This time it was just a stage, so we all stood outside in the rain. It seems to be the done thing for doors to open a very long time ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/29/cheering-and-waving-twitching-and-salivating Citylink are a bunch of useless amateurs that don't have the guts to admit their uselessness when it's pointed out to them. I spent all day yesterday and half of this morning trying to book tickets to get to Glasgow. I was repeatedly told by the online ordering system: Please ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/26/ordering-bus-tickets-on-citylink-website-is-a-silly-mess That's it, finished. I have now passed the SQA course for British Sign Language Level 2. This makes it seem much more like a qualification than I have considered it to be. It has been nice in the past to get the certificate (when it eventually comes) but the point ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/25/end-of-sign-language-lessons This is the guy that wrote the bread book I'm always raving about. I'd embed the video here but there doesn't seem an easy way to do that. Watch him make sweet dough for doughnuts and so on. http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/25/sweet-dough-with-richard-bertinet It's been a busy few days here. At the beginning of the week I had a birthday (I can't remember if I mentioned that). I made some cake for work, instead of buying something from Greggs. I got a lot of compliments for the Chocolate Gingerbread, so I'm glad I ... http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/23/birthdays-friends-food-and-so-on