Before I can start relating my sometimes amusing train journies I really have to reval that Commuting is not just catching a train and getting somewhere, far from it it is a maze of unwritten rules, so in order to help all those Train Virgins, I have compiled a list of do's and don'ts. The Platform, 1) Never Take your place on the platform before other trains have past, this is a big no no, regular travellers have their spot on the platform, and newbies beware, stand back and learn, or you...
It's been a long time since I have visited my favourite blog site, mainly due to now working in a different city so I spend a ot of time commuting. However I logged on today and whilist browsing some of my old blogs I found 2 replys telling me that my blogs are boring, not insightful, not anything but boring. Once I got overthe trauma of this revalation I decided that maybe she's right, well after reading them I have to admit that anon was very right so I have decided to stop with all the ang...
I really do enjoy a good novel to read on the train, as I comut to work I go through a lot, and I have two favourite topics, Humor and Science fiction, I love it even more when they are put together. One of my favourite authors is Rob Grant, part of the Grant Naylor team which produced the Red Dwarf series of books and TV shows. Rob Grant has now gone solo, and has written some great Novels, including COLONY, Fat and Incompetence, the last being the one I am refering to. It is in te main a di...
Some time in 2003 I discovered Stardock and wincustomise, then I discovered Joeuser, since then the addiction was complete, or as my wife says the other woman. Although she does admit that it has widened my computer skills and gives me another tool in my IT kitbag, she has now name ther whole it thing Lucy and has resigned herself to share her place with My job, which is Project Management IT. She really isn't leaving, things between us are really great, I just wanted to say how much I enj...
Often when I watch TV and the show or news or whatever is from the US or Canada, I notice that you have difficulty with the H and in some cases some other letters, an example being the word herb, pronounced in most english speaking nations as HER-B not as the USA does ERB. Now some say that H should be silent, and maybe it should, however if you stick to this premis then Herbet should be pronounced Erbet, or Herd would be erd, house ouse, Horse would be ourse, however or should I say owever, ...
Before I can start relating my sometimes amusing train journies I really have to reval that Commuting is not just catching a train and getting somewhere, far from it it is a maze of unwritten rules, so in order to help all those Train Virgins, I have compiled a list of do's and don'ts. The Platform, 1) Never Take your place on the platform before other trains have past, this is a big no no, regular travellers have their spot on the platform, and newbies beware, stand back and learn, or you...
It's been a long time since I have visited my favourite blog site, mainly due to now working in a different city so I spend a ot of time commuting. However I logged on today and whilist browsing some of my old blogs I found 2 replys telling me that my blogs are boring, not insightful, not anything but boring. Once I got overthe trauma of this revalation I decided that maybe she's right, well after reading them I have to admit that anon was very right so I have decided to stop with all the ang...
I really do enjoy a good novel to read on the train, as I comut to work I go through a lot, and I have two favourite topics, Humor and Science fiction, I love it even more when they are put together. One of my favourite authors is Rob Grant, part of the Grant Naylor team which produced the Red Dwarf series of books and TV shows. Rob Grant has now gone solo, and has written some great Novels, including COLONY, Fat and Incompetence, the last being the one I am refering to. It is in te main a di...
Some time in 2003 I discovered Stardock and wincustomise, then I discovered Joeuser, since then the addiction was complete, or as my wife says the other woman. Although she does admit that it has widened my computer skills and gives me another tool in my IT kitbag, she has now name ther whole it thing Lucy and has resigned herself to share her place with My job, which is Project Management IT. She really isn't leaving, things between us are really great, I just wanted to say how much I enj...
Often when I watch TV and the show or news or whatever is from the US or Canada, I notice that you have difficulty with the H and in some cases some other letters, an example being the word herb, pronounced in most english speaking nations as HER-B not as the USA does ERB. Now some say that H should be silent, and maybe it should, however if you stick to this premis then Herbet should be pronounced Erbet, or Herd would be erd, house ouse, Horse would be ourse, however or should I say owever, ...