It looks like the Tory knives are out for Clegg. Not directly of course, but by using the surrogate of the press with all its arms-length plausible deniability. The Mail and Sun are busy trying to dig up as much dirt as they can and the Telegraph is joining in with this story about political […]
Entries from April 22nd, 2010
Sticking the knives into Clegg
April 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics
Tags: Elections·Lib Dems·Newspapers
Ryanair still not winning any customer service awards
April 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Ryanair still not winning any customer service awards · Life
Every time you think that Ryanair have reached the bottom, they find new depths to stoop to.
Data centre in a box
April 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on Data centre in a box · Technology
I am currently nearing the end of a novel by Cory Doctorow which at one point describes the data centre provisions of a fictional MMORPG company. They had shipping containers kitted out with self-contained server farms which could be built centrally and then shipped out around the world to cool locations where they would be, […]
The cruellest cut
April 20th, 2010 · Comments Off on The cruellest cut · Life
Tory cuts to public services are positively welcome compared to this.   I am now even more reluctant to go and have my recurring abcess treated surgically!
Tags: Medicine/Health
Blogging takes a back seat
April 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Life, Politics
What with one thing and another, over the last week or two I have been blogging less and less but tweeting more. (How’s that for a line that would have made no sense at all just a few years ago?) In some ways this is good, but in other ways I regret it.
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Junk mail
April 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Technology
Like most people I get a lot of spam and junk mail and a lot of it gets trapped by filters on the mail server and in my mail client. Just recently I have been getting a lot more ‘real’ emails than normal, relating to the elections. What is surprising is how many of these […]
Tags: Spam
No more Ning
April 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on No more Ning · Technology
Well not for free anyway, according to this report. This is really bad news for a lot of people. Ning is a great system for setting up user groups and forums, either on an open or closed basis and it is used by loads of charities, community groups and other organisations to set up their […]
Tags: Internet
No BNP candidate in Horsham
April 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Politics
On April 13th the One Million United blog reported : Whispers are circulating this morning about the alleged sacking of yet another British National Party councillor, just three weeks before the general election they had such high hopes for. Daniel McDonald, a BNP councillor for Horsham, is thought to have been sacked for failing to […]
A Future Fair for Ducks
April 16th, 2010 · Comments Off on A Future Fair for Ducks · Politics
I like the Labour manifesto and agree with nearly all of it. I like the picture on the cover as well, but when I saw it I thought it looked a little familiar. In fact it looked a bit like something in my CD collection…  Remember that track called Nice Weather for Ducks? The one […]
Tags: Elections
Grounded
April 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life
It was a bit strange at work, not seeing a plane go past every few minutes as UK air space was closed to all traffic for the first time since, well, ever I think. Nearly all traffic anyway, the Sussex air ambulance was still operational and I saw a single-engine light aircraft go over my […]
