On Tuesday, I had a haircut for the first time in nearly three years. And it got me thinking. How is it that hairdressers are allowed to price their services based on the gender of the customer?
Now, I can see how women’s haircuts would typically be more expensive than men’s. Women’s hairstyles are often more [...]
Archive of posts filed under the General Mumbling category.
Discriminatory Haircuts
Snobbery
A month ago, I bought the album Lungs, by Florence and the Machine. This was a bit of a gamble, as I hadn’t heard much of it beforehand (not knowingly at least), and was mostly going by what one or two other people had said about it. And as it turned out, this was a [...]
2010
So, it’s a new year. And indeed a new decade, unless you feel that the decades have to sync up perfectly with the centuries. I don’t. We don’t refer to decades as part of a sequence as we do with centuries (as in ‘the twenty-first century’), we refer to them in terms of the digits [...]
Weird
I learned in the pub this evening that there is a page on Encyclopaedia Dramatica dedicated to someone I have met in person.
In all honesty, it’s rather sad to see that since the last I heard of him several years ago, he not only hasn’t managed to pull himself together and sort himself out, but [...]
Christmas
So Christmas has been. It has not, however, gone. Christmas does not end until Epiphany on the sixth of January. But Christmas day is over, so I can at least do some reflecting on the subject.
I think one’s enjoyment of Christmas is very much dependent on one’s relationship with one’s family. It’s almost invariably a [...]
Spam
Well, having migrated this blog over to its new Wordpress-based setup, I quickly discovered the downside to this arrangement: comment spam.
I never had any comment spam before. I don’t know whether the system I had before was just particularly resilient to spam (possibly because having the comments hosted externally from the blog itself was confusing [...]
Loudness War and the future of recorded music
I was recently pointed towards an interesting article on the future of the ‘Loudness War’ that is plaguing recorded music (I’ve posted about this issue before, but if you’re still not sure what it’s about, see
Wordpress
Welcome to the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing* Strange World of Axel Fendersson mk. II!
So I finally got around to doing something I’ve been vaguely considering doing for almost as long as I’ve had a blog at all: migrating it over to Wordpress rather than using Blogger to administer it and Haloscan for comments.
I’ve set up some [...]
Government advisor sacked for giving wrong advice
Links: BBC News, The Guardian, The Times.
So the government has a board of scientists to advise them on drugs policy. That’s good thinking. It’s good to have some hard facts available when making policy decisions.
Unfortunately, the advice they give is at odd with that of the tabloid press, so the government ignores them. If you [...]
Hatred from Hull
Well, this makes a change from the more usual “Three of your friends have a crush on you!” adverts:
This would be more convincing if I actually knew anyone from Hull. Okay, not much more convincing, but still.
Presumably these people hate me because they envy the fact I don’t live in Hull.