Posted in Miscellaneous on 4 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
While I may be the most famous person to have been born on the fourth of May, some other notable personages share my birthday:
1825: Thomas Henry Huxley. Any hero of evolutionary theory is a hero of mine. Actually, I barely know anything about him.
1923: Eric Sykes. Comedy hero.
1928: Hosni Mubarak. Persident of Egypt. I remember [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Thoughts on 3 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
While I’m a bit of a news junky, it’s not often that something in the news surprises me. Today saw the unveiling of the new designs for UK coins (except the £2 coin). Despite the fact that the competition to find the new designs was launched in 2005 I had no idea that such moves [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on 23 January 2008 | No Comments »
1 GBP = 1.3392 EUR
1 GBP = 1.9508 USD
1 GBP = 76.418 INR (Indian Rupee)
1 GBP = 7.1603 AED (UAE Dirham)
Bonus Random Exchange Rate
1 GBP = 40.965 Gambian Dalasi (GMD)
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
Posted in Miscellaneous on 8 December 2007 | No Comments »
1 GBP = 80.065 Indian rupees (INR)
1 GBP = 1.3846 EUR
1 GBP = 2.0303 USD
Bonus Non-random Exchange Rate
1 GBP = 7.4563 Emirian dirhams (AED)
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
Posted in Miscellaneous on 1 December 2007 | No Comments »
Have you ever noticed that pedestrian crossing lights only ever let you cross when there are no cars in a five mile radius? Usually such lights (where there is only a pedestrian crossing - no junction) make you wait ages after you’ve pressed the button. And when they do change to green, you can cross [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Travel on 1 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago I was at Manchester Piccadilly station when there came, over the tannoy, a memorable announcement. Despite making a mental note to blog it I forgot. Maybe it wasn’t that memorable. However, I’ve just remembered it - so it was memorable after all. It was this:
‘Platform’ ‘13′ ‘for the’ ‘14:”37′ ‘train to’ [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on 11 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
I started reading Lord Valentine’s Castle on the plane back from Canada. The protagonist, Valentine, joins a troop of jugglers at the start of the novel. He learns to juggle in an afternoon, and juggling remains a theme throughout the book. When I got back to Britain, I found that my sister’s friend (who’d been [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Travel on 8 October 2007 | No Comments »
Although the keyboard on the hostel computer I’m using right now is US layout, it’s set up on the PC to work as what I imagine is French layout. Which is marginally annoying when trying to type words like ‘I’m’ and ‘it’s’ and use quotation marks. To type ‘ I have to press shift and [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on 22 September 2007 | No Comments »
As I’m currently in Canada I’m updating my exchange rate watch to include the Canadian dollar by default. Naturally, it replaces the Korean won.
1 GBP = 2.0218 CAD
1 GBP = 1.4332 EUR
1 GBP = 2.0194 USD
Bonus Random Exchange Rate
1 GBP = 10.125 Ukrainian hryven (UAH)
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
Posted in Miscellaneous on 9 August 2007 | No Comments »
1 GBP = 1,876.2 KRW
1 GBP = 1.4781 EUR
1 GBP = 2.0367 USD
2,000,000 KRW = 1,066.0074 GBP
Bonus Random Exchange Rate
1 GBP = 1,054.8 Chilean pesos (CLP)
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
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