Author Archives: taxicle

One of my fav websites, the Pirate Bay, out to break the back of copyright holders, has been blocked from the UK by all ISPs. They neglect however, that like wikileaks, they have many supporters prepared to mirror their website. … Continue reading →

Saw a mouse in a London tube station yesterday. Happy the stations are good for at least some forms of wildlife.

Debt. Lots of it. Cos we are not having enough children to maintain economic growth we are dooming ourselves to bankruptcy at some distant time.

Yes it can. The human race is becoming stupider cos more intelligent peopledont have babies. When people are so stupid they can’t even learn to read, all knowledge will be useless and we will all live on boiled grass.

We are having fewer babies – not enough in the west to maintain the population. The population will fall by two thirds in Japan by the end of the century. Follow this through, so that one day the entire world … Continue reading →

I had a hard disk failure a month ago. Everything was almost lost, but I came back stronger. I have a new, upgradeable raid system installed – automated backup and easy recovery in case of disk corruption. I have space … Continue reading →

The British Government wants to know everything you do. Government and police will be able to read all your emails, texts, monitor your internet as you use it and listen to all your phone calls as you make them. Suppose … Continue reading →

Not quite a superhero yet, but I suppose being a super smith is a step up from being a maths tutor. Here is a picture drawn by one of my students.

I have my ear to the ground. I can hear the revolution coming. I don’t know far away it is. I don’t know ho big it is. I only know everything must change. So as to understand and ride the … Continue reading →

I am having titanic visions. They are telling me that if I ever meet Kate Bush, I must ask her, “When I orgasm darling, parallel lines pulse and cross. How is it for you?”.