It’s been a busy couple of weeks for gigs. On the assumption that at least some of my readers have similar tastes to me, here are brief reviews of the three gigs I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks. Fairport Convention, Union Chapel, 20th FebThis is the second year running that I’ve seen Fairport… Continue reading Gigs for Old Gits
Author: Dave Cross
OLB Non Enrolled Non Endorsed 1
When communicating with your customers, it’s important to look at the information that you’re sending from their point of view. Are they really going to be interested in the information that you send? Earlier today I finally got round to unsubscribing from the MBNA marketing emails that have been annoying me for months. To confirm… Continue reading OLB Non Enrolled Non Endorsed 1
The Learning Guitar
I don’t play the guitar very well at all. I’ll sometimes say that I play it better than average, but that’s a claim that can only be justified by pointing out that the vast majority of people don’t play guitar at all so anyone who knows two or three chords is already well above average.… Continue reading The Learning Guitar
Homeopathy Petition
We’re all, of course, very happy about the results of the House of Commons Science and Technology committee’s evidence check on homeopathy. But it’s important to realise exactly what has happened. This is a House of Commons committee which has produced a list of recommendations. The government is under no obligation at all to take… Continue reading Homeopathy Petition
Homeopathic Dilutions
Like many press outlets, the Daily Mail pre-empted the publication of the Science and Technology committee report and published a story yesterday summing up the MPs’ findings. Of course the Daily Mail is the home of the gullible reader and a good number of the comments on that story are attempting to defend the woo-mongers.… Continue reading Homeopathic Dilutions
NHS Money Wasted on Homeopathy
Don’t have time to go into the detail that it deserves, but the House of Commons science and technology committee has published the results of its evidence check on homeopathy. The results won’t, of course, come as any surprise to anyone who has been following the debate. But I have to admit to be impressed… Continue reading NHS Money Wasted on Homeopathy
David Wright and Twitter
you can put lipstick on a scum-sucking pig but it is still a scum-sucking pig That’s apparently what Labour MP David Wright said about the Tory party on Twitter on Monday. I say “apparently” because he claims he didn’t say it. He says that his tweets have been tinkered with. He says that the words… Continue reading David Wright and Twitter
The Pod Delusion
I’ve never really been a fan of podcasts. It’s related to the reason why I rarely listen to talk radio – I think that audio is a really inefficient way to absorb information. I could take in the information at three or four times the speed if I could read it. But there’s an exception… Continue reading The Pod Delusion
Comments
In the middle of last week I upgraded this site to Movable Type 5. And at (I assume) the same time comments stopped working. It seems that it was some incompatibility between the MT5 Javascript that drives the comment system and the old MT4 templates that I was using. I’ve now rebuilt the site using… Continue reading Comments
Andrew Wakefield
After a hearing lasting two and a half years, the General Medical Council has decided that Andrew Wakefield acted unethically in his study which proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. It’s now twelve years since his paper was published. During all of that time there has never been more of a tiny… Continue reading Andrew Wakefield