• 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 modifications made to their service through a group on Facebook.

  Finally, why not take a look at occurrences of Facebook in Hansard?

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 even a bicycle, just as long as it isn’t made of bicycle-type material.

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 few points:

• they mention the journey time of stopping trains to Brighton being 40-50 minutes, but fail to mention that the express trains from London Victoria to Brighton reach Gatwick Airport in just 32 minutes, a mere 2 minutes greater than the overpriced Gatwick Express
• greater capacity on the line for people who use it on a daily basis is a good thing, it will encourage a greater number of people to routinely shift to an alternative form of transport, eg for commuting
• A major criticism of the ‘regular’ trains on this route is that they are too busy and there will not be enough space for airport passengers and their luggage. Clearly, increasing the capacity for these regular services will help to create more space for passengers
• Some regular trains also stop at other stations, such as Clapham Junction, which means there is more flexibility for boarding from points other than Victoria
• etc. The list goes on.

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 for someone who didn’t?

geourl came back! geourl 2.0 beta, to be exact.

so.. check out my neighbours in meatspace!

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.

First claim to be introducting satellite bus tracking (which seems a bit old hat these days, why rely on outer space when you could track locally using wifi? To me it seems ripe for the picking (suggesting?), as the council seem so pro-wifi – a link up would be ideal) and will be employing a community support officer to crack down on motorists parking in (and hopefully driving in) bus lanes.

Could I suggest something much simpler? How about a transparent fare structure, or even the publication of cash fares somewhere. Or even.. better! value! fares! Punctuality too, is useful. And somebody to talk to when things go wrong, preferably somebody other than Traveline, who haven’t been updated since the last timetable change.

(thanks to Sarah for the natty title)

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.