If something appears here, it means I probably forgot to put it in any of the other categories! Either that, or could think of any other to put it in…
Original playout date: 15 July 2007
Duration: 0:38
This is Lucka Street in Warsaw, but you’d have been seriously outta luck if you were living here in the Second World War, as it was the site of the Warsaw Ghetto and Jewish people were held captive in their own heighbourhood, awaiting their fate and the final showdown.
Continue reading “In the Ghetto”
Playout date: 29 March 2007
Duration: 4:00
Once again, this time in my normal voice rather than as Huliganov, I have a chat with a Furby. The difference this time is tat the Furby’s answers are slowed down and the whole thing made black and white to give it a sinister look.
Continue reading “Furby revisited”
I am particularly pleased to see a Russian student from Fitzwilliam on the team, although Howe who studies Japanese is also a man of taste with his subject of study as well as his articles of tricotage. Subarashii desu ne!
Here they are again some weeks later smashing Magdalen, Oxford, and doing not only themselves and Fitz but all of Cambridge proud;
And finally they meet their match against Merton:
But an excellent battle and an excellent run, well done!
There are etiquettical situations that affect us in these days of ubiquitous oriental cuisine which our forefathers did not even realise. They didn’t have to worry about which way to point the teapot in a Japanese restaurant, or remember not to stab the sushi with the hashi, and to put them back on the hashioki. Or that it’s OK to say the “n” word if you mean a slice of raw fish perched punningly atop a blob of rice. Or that the soy sauce is not for the unaga, which has its own sweet sauce. O tempura, o morays!
I thought I would just make a quick post outlining some of the changes you have noticed on this site. Some of these are still ongoing.
Given that it is now a New Year, 2014, I thought it’s about time to refresh this site a little bit. The first thing I did was to alter the colour scheme a little bit and your feedback on the new colour scheme with the maroon and grey of my college replacing the earlier background and tab colours respectively, and the header amber colour matching the colour of the stars which I hope you give five of everytime I write something more…
I repurchased the upgrade for customising fonts, which had lapsed, and chose a new font for the whole site. I hope you are enjoying that and there are no problems in reading it.
In addition I purchased for the first time a new upgrade, namely the no ads upgrade. I don’t know if any of you were seeing much third-party advertising on this site before — the site owner doesn’t actually see it — but if you were you won’t be seeing it from now on.
I’ve also started to add in some of the more recent header photographs – the ones which self select at random at the top whenever you choose a new page or refresh an existing page. I added in 13 new ones and I will start to add in probably another several hundred, I don’t even know where the limitation is as to how many will be allowed. The new photography being added to the headers is all my work and made with my new Canon camera which I purchased in the third-quarter 2013. So far there weren’t any of the Canon photographs included in this blog although some of you will have seen them on Facebook and on You Tube. I also wanted to put into practice some quite interesting hence I had about composition and cropping from a book on photography which I had purchased halfway through last year and only now reading.
Content-wise I haven’t really done anything, bar this update. I’ve tried to catch up with people’s questions. I’ve added into the box file on the right-hand side of the files about the Goldlist method which people have been asking me for. For those of you who are Polish taxpayers and who don’t already have your favourite charity to give your 1% to under the 1% scheme, the Flyers for my dear wife and children are also in that box file. They contain instructions for how to assign a value of 1% of your Polish tax to my wife’s multiple sclerosis needs and my children’s autism needs without there being any costs to yourselves. Taxpayers from other parts of the European Union can under EU law also donate to Polish registered charities like these ones tax effectively, unlike the Polish scheme that would involve you in actually paying your money, and to be honest I prefer to ask people to do things which help me but don’t cost anything more for them. The use of my Amazon store which is also linked on the right-hand side is another example. In this case your purchases cost you know more than they would do if you went directly to Amazon, but I am on 4%. If you don’t feel like enabling either of these forms of support for my family, that is fine. All my language courses and other materials on YouTube as well as the Goldlist method are free and will remain so unconditionally.
I added a few more widgets, especially the ones at the bottom you will see, tidied up some others, and did a little bit of editing and some of the old articles. I hope you get some pleasure from the new look.
New content is on its way and also the project of uploading all of my YouTube videos but properly classified – that will move the head quite quickly once I catch up with my backlog in producing and playing out films. At the moment I have a backlog of just over a year.
You’ll probably notice that some of the style of earlier posts with the enriched content is now gone – that’s been taken away by the programme at WordPress. The earlier articles with enriched content like relevant articles below, pingbacks, links and images suggested by the system – this all disappeared and I can’t find any explanation as to why it did. Nothing unusual there, then. This seems to be par for the course on the internet, unfortunately. It’s not really a big deal though. Blogs are supposed to be about the content made by the blog owner and the rest is icing on the cake. I get that.
That’s all for now, and I hope you remained subscribed and hope to see you regularly.