Archives for the 'politic' Category
boris who?
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
As an inhabitant of the Coldharbour ward, which really is a very small part of South East London (as we know a ward should contain 5,500 people), I was very pleased to learn that my ward came bottom of the list for votes for our new mayor. Coldharbour had the lowest proportion of votes for […]
London sponsored Facebook poll
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Facebook just asked me to take part in a ‘London Sponsored Poll’. It looks like a cross between a public service poll, and an advert. I’m not sure what happens to the results, but it looked like this:
It’s not clear why Brian is at the top (unless the order is randomly generated), and the non-candidate […]
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 […]
bikes on trains
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
No time to blog properly, other than to say that this campaign is critically important, and should be of interest to anybody who uses or might use the combination of bicycle and train:
http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4801
Good.
comes from a smoke-free home
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Last night I had my first taste of the smoking ban in public places which started in Scotland on Sunday. It was odd to actually be able to smell a pub, rather than the smoke contained within it. Waking up this morning and not stinking of smoke was also quite odd.
Summary: I think the […]
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 […]
salt
Sunday, November 20th, 2005
is salt really worthy of a domain name?
www.salt.gov.uk
remix culture
Sunday, May 1st, 2005
right on my doorstep:
REMIX CULTURE: Creative Commons and Creativity
Sponsored by the Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex.
this friday. magic.
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 […]
transportdirect dot NET
Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Today the Observer ran a story about how Transport Direct gives rubbish advice.
A quick google search for Transport Direct turns up a case study at microsoft.com. I find titles like Fast Development, Lower Costs and Prepared for the Future.
Best quote:
We have been able to do it at a reasonable cost and in reasonable time […]