Archives for the 'news' Category
risky beans
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
I particularly like the idea of working on a credit risk project for baked bean loans.
Face the news
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Facebook seems to be in the news permanently. My two favourite stories of this week were:
Get a life and allow your staff to use Facebook, TUC tells bosses: where the TUC comments on the rights of employees to use Facebook
Facebook campaign forces HSBC U-turn: which talks about pressure (successfully) placed upon HSBC to revert […]
a prize
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Would you reward this man?
beating the ban
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Thanks to bikebiz, I saw the best news article I’ve seen for a long time.
Following the Southern recently banning cyclists from their trains, a gentleman asked permission to take a cardboard bicycle on the train, which he was indeed allowed to.
It seems that you can take as much luggage as you like, and […]
spin
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
It’s amazing how much bias can be included in a newspaper article, especially one you expect to report factually.
Today, The Times reports on the decision to axe the Gatwick Express rail service. The emphasis in the article is that cutting back this service is a bad thing. However, they conveniently fail to mention a […]
want to break into a house? ask the council
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1586135,00.htm
celebrities fix everything
Monday, April 11th, 2005
the guardian reveals that jamie and his school dinners seem to have created something of a paradigm shift for food preparation outside schools. which is good.
maybe we need a celebrity to point out some interesting problems in the british political arena. speaking of which, my local green candidate has a blog. would you vote […]
geourl is back
Sunday, February 27th, 2005
just when i thought it was dead for good..
geourl came back! geourl 2.0 beta, to be exact.
so.. check out my neighbours in meatspace!
first the worst
Thursday, February 24th, 2005
I am quite pleased with the Traffic Commissioner’s choice of penalty imposed upon First for their operation of local bus services in Bristol, as reported by the BBC.
I believe this amounts to approximately half of the maximum he is able to fine a bus operator, which is determined by the number of buses operated. […]
ipod milk money
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
The Guardian reports that
A survey of more than 300 teenagers showed that while two-thirds could give the exact price of an Apple iPod mini, three-quarters had no idea how much a pint of milk costs.