Michael - The Information Superhighwayman

Hello

This is Michael Lawrie's Weblog. Despite years of hating "Blogs"; I have decided that these things are a nice way to present random rants and observations. Calling it a Weblog makes things easier.

Why Superhighwayman? Well why not! The only good thing to come out of the Harrods Case was the British Press christening me the "Information Superhighwayman". I liked the name, so I will use it.

News

April 2025: I tried to write one post per decade, but failed. One every 12 years seems okay, and it's a follow-on post to the last one. Also the site isn't mobile friendly yet. Since I am not mobile friendly, this is never going to be a priority.

October 2024: My old Wordpress MU finally broke too much to maintain it. I moved my sites off onto individual instances so now this thing stands alone, and I have broken all the very legacy pretty themes and fonts.

April 2010: I have moved this from its old home so we'll see what happens now.

October 2009: I am trying to be a little more regular with posting. Wish me luck!

April 2008: I have been a little bitter and cynical the last couple of months. If you want lighter more amusing stuff then maybe you should skip the top few postings.

October 2009: I am trying to be a little more regular with posting. Wish me luck!

April 2008: I have been a little bitter and cynical the last couple of months. If you want lighter more amusing stuff then maybe you should skip the top few postings.

Minstrations

I don’t like weblogs…

27 November 2006 Michael No comments

I don’t like weblogs. I have never made a secret of this fact but I have decided that maybe I should have one for ranting in or something. I may use it, I may not but it has to be easier than using my old rants site.

I started this one on November 27th, 2006 at http://lorry.wordpress.com/ so that I could evaluate WordPress for the UKnet site (Actually re-evaluate, we used to have it last year but it was shit then) – Unfortunately the only way of testing this properly is to use it a little and I failed to con anyone else into doing it for me. So far it’s not looking too bad and I decided to give it an onsite trial and moved it across here on December the 4th.

We’ll see; I guess!

Narrative none

A Cheese Epiphany from a prior age

19 December 2003 Michael No comments

I learned a useful thing this week when researching the origin of Quince Cheese. It all rests on the definition of the word cheese, which includes

Cheese:
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

From now on, every time I fuck up my jam making and make it so hard that you can barely stick a knife into it, I will declare it to be cheese. I have 5 kilogrammes of plum cheese in the cupboard, I am happy about this.

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Apart from the rather cryptic “She made me tea.” posted at 06:43 on August the 18th, 2003 and a prior posting on March the 20th, 2002 at 01:29 which simply said “Poo” (my considered review of Livejournal, I believe) – This is the only thing I ever really wrote in my previous weblog. I figured I should move it over to here anyway.