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All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

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All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

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Tiff of the Worlds.

Michael 17 April 2007 No Comments

Something odd has been happening this last few years and even by talking about it, I am in danger of accidentally walking across the front of a religious war. In…

Groupthink Observations Rants

Lock up your Negros

Michael 16 April 2007 No Comments

Once more in this fine and free country of ours, the Lords are debating the passing of the new Mental Health Bill. Sensibly they have thrown it out every time…

Groupthink Observations Rants Security Technology

Oh How Fine is the Emperor’s New Credit Card.

Michael 13 April 2007 No Comments

Those of you who know me should know that one of my fascinations is the phenomenon of Groupthink (or “Folie a Deux”) and one of my professions was working out…

Nothing in particular Observations Ponderings Technology

Confessions of The Information Superhighwayman.

Michael 2 April 2007 1 Comment

When I was younger, thinner and more photogenic, I came home from a cellphone-free holiday in Scotland to find myself all over the newspapers being dubbed as “The Information Superhighwayman”.…

Groupthink Observations Ponderings Rants

Move along please, nothing to see here…

Michael 29 March 2007 1 Comment

Feel free to ignore this, I just wanted somewhere to babble and this seemed as good a place as any. If it makes any grammatical sense at all I will…

Nothing in particular Photos Pretty Pictures

Monkeys!

Michael 29 March 2007 1 Comment

It seems that I now have 59 of the PG-Tips monkeys. That doesn’t include Sidekick, the trusty little monkey of the same family who travels the world with me in…

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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.

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April 30th 2025: Themes are driving me nuts. I have switched to Blogarise, with a lot of Custom-CSS to change some of the questionable colour and title options. Hopefully that will be fine for now.

April 7th 2025: The WordPress theme from 2010 that I insist on using is apparently riddled with performance issues and incompatible with everything. I have switched to a theme from 2012 that seems more stable and doesn't set off all the alert panels. It also works on mobile browsers though I had to add an "about" page.

April 3rd 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.

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