My laptop died last night, it died in ignominy. It’s an old HP Pavillion, nothing new certainly and it’s pretty old (verging on its 7th year which I hear is like 300 years old in terms of laptop age) but this is where the problems start. There are effectively no parts that can fix it. …
Category Archive: Blog
Jan 18 2013
A Special Thanks
Well I just tallied up the donations people have made. And I can get a faster ticket home. You guys have thrown in a whopping £95 quid which is a bit more than needed. I don’t have to travel by train (If I did travel by train I wish I had my old camera because …
Jan 18 2013
Comments Policy
So writing about the shooting of a teenager and farmers in Palestine lead me to my first slightly out of control comment barrage… So… I need some advice on a comments policy. I had this in mind. Green/Yellow/Red (Traffic Lights – Whee!) Safe/Normal/Unmoderated So a topic on green would literally be “these are places for …
Jan 17 2013
A Proper Response to slc1 – Israel and Palestine
I was going to leave this as a comment, but I figured that it would do better as a post. This is in response to slc1 who wrote a comment on a report on the shooting of 17 year old whose only crime was to throw stones at a symbol of oppression. Mr. avicenna …
Jan 08 2013
So Sorry
I have been made aware that both me and Taslima have both been doing something wrong. You see, when we spoke out against rape and when I covered the ways that Indian culture failed with regards to rape I made a horrible mistake. I forgot to delineate between the men who rape and the men …
Dec 31 2012
It’s Not All Doom and Gloom – The Lady Friend
Yes… I know. I am showing off… But I really don’t care at this point. It’s not all doom and gloom because there are people in my life who make all the tragic cases better. That even around people angry at how women are treated there is one person who I can come back to …
Dec 25 2012
Merry Christmas
Do they know it’s Christmas? They better do… Finally get to start Christmas, spent most of my day at work because that never really stops. And now am going to have the most Christmas Dish of them all! Spaghetti Bolognese… It’s weird living in India
Dec 24 2012
Ed Needs You
For those who haven’t heard, Ed’s had some pretty major (and to the medics here pretty damn awesome) surgery over the past few days. He is back home and blogging away but thanks to his medical system has incurred some costs. Come comrades! Let us show him the power of socialism! I mean linking to …
Dec 19 2012
The Way I Write Isn’t Fast
I haven’t covered the news of the horrific and public rape of a student in India because I haven’t had time yet to be happy with what I have written. I am not ignoring it, I just will publish it when I am happy with the end result. New things are happening with that story …
Dec 04 2012
Dx… Jungle Fever, Rx… No More Racists
Patient: Ashley F Miller Dx – Jungle Fever Rx – Blues Brothers, Ebony and Ivory, Kittens and No More Racists… Stat. Avicenna Last






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