When I was first playing with HTML many years ago, one of the first web sites that I built was one that gently took the piss out of Barbara Cartland. I haven’t done anything with it for years. In fact I was mildly surprised to find it there when I moved all my sites to… Continue reading Barbara Cartland
Majority Support Smoking Ban
According to this BBC Survey almost three-quarters of the population of the UK would support a ban on smoking in public. There are a number of other similar stats in the report, but I don’t know how much trust you can place in a report on statistics that includes the line More than two thirds… Continue reading Majority Support Smoking Ban
12 Reasons for Growth of Open Source
As given by Marc Andreessen[1] at the “Open Source in Government” conference. “The Internet is powered by open source.” “The Internet is the carrier for open source.” “The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed.” “It’s simply going to be more secure than proprietary software.” “Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments.”… Continue reading 12 Reasons for Growth of Open Source
Diddly Dum Diddly Dum
Christopher Eccleston is to be the new Doctor Who. I think that’s a good choice. He’s a great actor and I like the way that the choice completely side-steps all of the more obvious candidates whose names have been mentioned before like Eddie Izzard, Alan Davies and Anthony Head. This sounds like it’s going to… Continue reading Diddly Dum Diddly Dum
Number One
When I was younger and interested in the music charts, it was incredibly rare for a single to go straight in at number one. Usually a single would enter the charts lower down and move upwards over the newxt few weeks. A single going straight in at number one was something for the record books.… Continue reading Number One
Media Guardian
I was going to link to a story in today’s Guardian where they pointed out the fact that Zoo Weekly‘s web site seems to be invisible to Google for some reason (currently this site is still the top result for “Zoo Weekly“) but when searching for the article on their site I came up against… Continue reading Media Guardian
Davorg in the Lion’s Den
I’ve been asked to speak at the April meeting of the North London branch of the British Computer Society (more details nearer the time) and they invited me along as a guest to the March meeting so I’d get a feel for how their meetings work. The meeting was at a Microsoft office in central… Continue reading Davorg in the Lion’s Den
TheOpenCD
I’ve just been sent[1] a free sample copy of TheOpenCD. This is an evangelism project which provides nicely packaged CDs containing open source applications for Windows users. The version I have contains OpenOffice.org, the Gimp, Mozilla and a host of other less well-known apps. It also contains tutorials and a few books about open source.… Continue reading TheOpenCD
The Miner’s Strike – 20 Years On
It’s twenty years since the start of the miner’s strike and the papers are full of retrospective pieces. One of the best is this piece by Seumas Milne from Saturday’s Guardian. The miner’s strike was one of the most devastating episodes from recent(ish) political history and it’s very worrying to see that even now (under… Continue reading The Miner’s Strike – 20 Years On
Football Spin
A number of British football players have been accused of sexual assault whilst in Spain. I’m sure that, by now, no-one is surprised by stories like this. But a report that I saw on the TV this morning contained a very strange quote from the club involved. A spokesperson was quoted as saying “we will… Continue reading Football Spin