Looks like Nadine Dorries might have gone too far this time. She’s been on extremely dodgy ground for the last week, since the Daily Telegraph’s investigation into MPs’ expenses started looking at her. Over the last week she’s been posting an increasing bizarre stream of consciousness on her blog. She tried to explain what was… Continue reading A Missing Blog
Tag: blogging
Overcomplicating Matters
It is, of course, a truism that the larger and more complex a project is, the less likely it is to come in on budget, on spec or in time. When the project in question involves IT, the chances of any of the original targets being met approach zero. This is why one of the… Continue reading Overcomplicating Matters
Review of 2008: Favourite Posts
As promised a couple of days ago, here are my favourite posts from this year. I’ve chosen one from each month and they are listed chronologically. Colossal Caving AdventureA piece about my experiences trying out “adventure caving” in Cheddar Gorge. I really didn’t enjoy it very much. This Film is Not Yet RatedI enjoyed the… Continue reading Review of 2008: Favourite Posts
Missing MPs’ Blogs
A while ago, I set up Planet Westminster – a pretty simple site that simply aggregates all of the MPs’ blogs that I could find. It was largely created to scratch a personal itch. I wanted a simple way to subscribe to all MPs’ blogs in my feed reader. And that’s really how I use… Continue reading Missing MPs’ Blogs
Oops
I had a little bit of an accident over the weekend when I accidentally started to restore an old back-up of the database that runs this blog. I noticed what I what I was doing pretty quickly and stopped it before too much damage was done. But I lost the last few days entries and… Continue reading Oops
Blogging Nonsense
One of the joys of MPs having blogs is that you often get to see what they are really like without their utterances going through the filter of the party spin machine. And it’s amazing how often so many of them make complete fools of themselves. Today’s example is Nadine Dorries. Of course as a… Continue reading Blogging Nonsense
Blog Progress
The hard disk that my old blog entries live on (along with a few other web sites) is still looking rather ill. It’s apparently possible to prod it in a certain manner and get it to work for a few hours until it gets tired again. The hard part is persuading the tech support people… Continue reading Blog Progress
I Have a Blog
Nothing much in it yet. All of the old content was on a disk which seems to have failed and I don’t have a backup (please don’t bother telling me how stupid that was – believe me, I know). There’s still a chance that I’ll be able to get the old stuff back so it… Continue reading I Have a Blog
Nadine Dorries’ “Blog”
Nadine Dorries is the MP for Mid Bedfordshire. On her web site she has something that she calls a blog, although it only really resembles one superficially. Up until a couple of days ago, the biggest problem with it was that it didn’t allow linking to a particular entry, you could only link to a… Continue reading Nadine Dorries’ “Blog”
Top 100 British Blogs
These kinds of things are always very dubious, but top 100 lists are always fun to discuss. Blogstorm have published a list of the top 100 British blogs. The list is calculated from some combination of Technorati and Alexa ratings. Good to see a few friends and colleagues on there.