Yellow Swordfish

Assorted Ramblings #5

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:19 +0000

I was quite saddened to see the news recently that SAAB are likely to disappear as a major car maker. Of course, they have not been the SAAB of old since they joined the General Motors stable but I still have very fond memories of my old 99. It was one of the best second-hand [...]

Natural Selection

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:45:34 +0000

Here we are at the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his seminal work ‘On The Origin of Species‘ and if, in the darkness of night, there are scrabbling and shuffling noises to be heard echoing around Westminster Abbey then that will be him, turning in [...]

Gum Sculpture

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:24:07 +0000

I have ranted on before about the curse of chewing gum being casually and selfishly discarded on pavements. But I had never really considered post-chewed gum as a sculpture medium. So both my OH and I – and maybe Sid the dog – were somewhat surprised and amused to find this little art piece attached to a [...]

London Pride

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:33:46 +0000

By coincidence, on the day that one of my small handful of readers left a comment describing the Millennium Dome as an ‘Upturned Tupperware Dish’ I was planning to write about it in this, my next post. And that is because, now called the O2 Arena, I had just been there for the very first [...]

Poop Poop!

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:42:32 +0000

Yes it’s a Segway. Or – to give it it’s full title, a Segway Personal Transporter. A relatively common sight in many US cities and, I am told, European ones as well. Unless you happen to live in England that is, where I doubt very many people have seen one at all. Probably, like me, you [...]

Seven Wives And The Model T Ford

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:46:03 +0000

I don’t usually do travel tips but one or two here and there will do no harm. I do not, generally speaking, like hotels that much. I have spent time in too many and while I have been lucky enough to stay in some really up-market places they are still impersonal and usually without much personality. [...]

Assorted Ramblings #4

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:11:15 +0000

According to MacUser, two separate Apple centres in the USA have refused to carry out repairs on a Mac because the owner is a smoker. Not because they feel that smoking has contributed to whatever has gone wrong but because their technicians consider the machines ‘contaminated’ and a ‘bio-hazard’. Due to the computer having been used [...]

The SS Man

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:58:08 +0000

88 year old Heinrich Boere, a Dutchman of Dutch-German origins, is currently on trial in Germany for the murder of three Dutchmen during the Second World War. Boere clearly sided with the German side of his family and joined the SS serving in occupied Holland. When the war was over, he admitted the killings to [...]

The Magical Life Of Socks

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:57:05 +0000

I fully realise that I am setting myself up for ridicule here but what the hell – I’m used to that. So yes – these are my socks. Well they are one half of a weeks supply of socks. I found them last autumn in Marks and Spencer, bought three weeks worth – which is more [...]

International Roaming – Whatever That Means

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:42 +0000

The young man in the local 3 shop said “it will just work”. “Are you sure about that?” I asked. “That’s what T-Mobile said and that never worked”. And neither did 3. Well – that’s not strictly true. It didn’t work in Washington DC and it didn’t work in Denver or anywhere else in Colorado. Didn’t work [...]