So here’s an odd thing.
On Monday, I cycled home as normal, and coming round the corner onto our road I saw our car parked outside our house (about 20m away). Immediately I thought “I’d better check if that’s locked.”
Initially I had no idea where that thought came from. Now, looking back at it, here’s what […]

Well, this started out as an iPhone blog, so I’d best write up a few bits & bobs on the iPhone 4.
I reserved an iPhone at the Cabot Circus Apple store, but since there were likely to be queues all day (even to pick up reserved ones) I got in the queue at around 6:15am, […]

[This was my attempt at a TheDailyMash style  - I did send it to them, but didn’t hear back so either they don’t accept submissions or it’s not funny. For the news background to this piece, see the Lighter Later campaign.]
Campaign group BrighterLater last night said that everyone in Britain should gain an extra IQ […]

Just a quick place to post this reply from my MP (Kerry McCarthy) on 17th March about my concerns about DEB being rushed through. I hope she doesn’t mind me posting it here.
As you will be aware, the Bill was introduced in the House of Lords, and has gone through all stages there, being significantly […]

UPDATE: The Norwegian Newspaper VG (Verdens Gang - roughly translated as The Way of the World and apparently not usually the most cerebral of papers) has included a photo from Bristol in its coverage of the 10:23 events. I passed the link on to a Norwegian very close to me, and […]

This is a comment I received from Thomas Britton of thetrainline.com, which I thought was worth publishing in its own post. Nice that he’s noticed and taken the time to write, and I’m happy my frustrations with their support people has been noted.
The original post this refers to is at http://www.hairysocialistsforcatlovers.com/2009/07/14/thetrainlinecom-screws-up/
Hi Oliver,
My name is […]

thetrainline.com - what a horrible mess. If you want to compare two journeys, you might think it’s OK to look for Journey A, open a new window to look for Journey B, then return to the Journey A window and continue to book it. Oh no… if you do that, Journey B’s data is the […]

Well, everyone’s writing about it I’m sure. But what other purpose does this blog serve?
It’s slow. It’s really slow. Horribly slow. Can type several words in a text message, URL, etc, before any words appear on the screen slow.
Not all the time, mind. Maybe about a quarter of the time. Often enough to be annoying.
It […]

This has been written about elsewhere, but thought it worth sharing since I’ve not posted much recently, and I find it both hilarious and very annoying.
The Cisco ASDM - Adaptive Security Device Manager - is  a Java client (which, utilising all that is best about Java, only runs on Windows) that gives you a GUI […]

The O2 store down at the Horsefair end of Broadmead had some in stock the other day, so I went and waited in a line of 3 people for over half an hour: the purchasing procedure has been made a lot more complicated since the original iPhone came out. Still, I passed the time chatting […]