Yesterday’s Observer has a piece about Stewart Dimmock the lorry driver and school governor who campaigned against Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth being shown to British schoolchildren. Dimmock’s campaign has largely been portrayed as a “David and Goliath” fight, with Dimmock as the underdog, fighting a school system that is trying to indoctrinate his… Continue reading More On Stewart Dimmock
Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Al Gore and the UN’s IPCC have won the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m not entirely sure what climate change has to do with peace, but it’s nice to see his work honoured. What isn’t so nice (but isn’t at all unexpected) is the stupidity being demonstrated in the BBC Have Your Say on the subject.… Continue reading Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Temporary Bloggerheads
Bloggerheads will return soon, but in the meantime Tim Ireland has set up a temporary blog in order to talk about what happened at the end of last week. As you may have heard, the response by UK bloggers to this issue has been amazing. Over 250 blogs are now following the story. Here’s the… Continue reading Temporary Bloggerheads
Bloggerheads Down
I haven’t mentioned this before, but over on Bloggerheads Tim Ireland has been shining a lot of light on the activities of Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov. It seems that the light was getting a little too bright as the people who host Tim’s web site have had legal threats from libel lawyers representing Mr. Usmanov.… Continue reading Bloggerheads Down
My Pirate Name
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. So… My pirate name is: Mad Davy Rackham Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a… Continue reading My Pirate Name
Blogging Update
You’ll have noticed (I hope) that blogging has been pretty light round these parts recently. I’ve got things I want to write but I don’t seem to have much enthusiasm for it. I think that at least part of the problem is the new version of Movable Type. Oh, it all looks very lovely, but… Continue reading Blogging Update
Broken Email
I’m moving domains around to different servers. Last night I moved mag-sol.com. Except I did a spectacularly bad job of it. Oh, I moved the web site. And the subdomains. But I completely forgot that mag-sol.com is where all of my mail ends up (even if it’s sent to dave.org.uk). So I forgot to set… Continue reading Broken Email
New Toy
I treated myself to a Nokia N800. It arrived yesterday and it looks like a lot of fun. Expect many N800-related links in my delicious feed over the next few weeks as I get to grips with it. Now. What applications should I be installing?
Abusing Catchphrases
A christian group have been producing posters and other materials using catchphrases from TV shows like Catherine Tate and Little Britain. The BBC is reporting that Tate, along with Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and David Walliams have been speaking to lawyers about the situation. The posters have apparently been withdrawn. But I hope that the… Continue reading Abusing Catchphrases
Ripper Victim #2
It’s only the second victim, but already I’m running late. On September 8th, 1888, at about 5:50am, the body of Annie Chapman was found in Hanbury St, Spitalfields, London. This was just over a week after the murder of Polly Nichols. The next murder in the series wasn’t for another three weeks.