North of the Stupid Line

Archive for January, 2005

23 Jan, 2005

Older generations and MSN

Posted by: Rob

I’m cracking up with laughter as we speak because I am having an MSN conversation with my mum.
Why do the older generations have such difficulty in dealing with the complexities (!) that is MSN? Actually, let’s extend that a bit further: why do the older generations have such difficulties using PCs?!?
Many of them use [...]

23 Jan, 2005

First Great Western

Posted by: Rob

Can someone explain something to me? Why did a train journey that usually lasts 1 hour 45 mins take almost 3 hours today? I left Newport at 17:39 (or thereabouts) and arrived in London Paddington at 20:23. The time on my ticket says I should have arrived at 19:25. So what [...]

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16 Jan, 2005

LLM Residential

Posted by: Rob

Just got back from my second LLM residential weekend in Leicester. Boy, was it an intensive one! I enjoy these weekends, but I sure find it hard to go back to work the week after having had no break from work/thinking!
Anyway, it was a good weekend. We had lectures by Professor Olga [...]

15 Jan, 2005

Woolamaloo

Posted by: Rob

This is something that I wanted to comment on a while ago, but didn’t get round to it.
If one looks at this post at Woolamaloo you can see that Joe Gordon has been sacked from Waterstones simply “because he kept an online diary in which he occasionally mentioned bad days at work and satirised his [...]

14 Jan, 2005

Where is my life going?

Posted by: Rob

You know what? Sometimes I feel like I want to scream. Why? This training contract thing. I’ve been trying for four years, yes you read right, four years, to get a training contract, without success. It wouldn’t be so bad, except, I’ve got plans.
Rachel and I are getting married on [...]

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  • JGJones: Hear hear - I never understand those "fathers" myself either. My wife once said this quote to me which is very true: "Any man can be a father, but
  • Dafydd: JG: Point taken. Rob: you should have waited :-D
  • JGjones: Dafydd, Android phones are good - but the current hardware that's in UK sucks for them (they're nowhere near as powerful as the iPhone 3GS so you r

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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.