An entirely brilliant blog by someone else called Dave. Not only that, but he is a Dave C and he likes open source as well. Apologies for the lack of posts – I’m redoing the design of the blog and hope to have v2.0 up this weekend. There will probably be some further tinkering and [...]

The BBC had a programme last night where Giles Coren and Sue Perkins ate like Edwardians for a week. Coren is The Times‘ restaurant critic and helpfully provides a menu here for an Edwardian week. It is a huge amount of food to consume and is only possible when you have plenty of time to [...]

Why has only Don Imus been fired for racism on talk radio? MediaChannel.org has some other bits and bobs to listen to… MediaChannel.org was set up by Danny Schechter, an LSE alum who wrote for The Script while I was involved in it. xD.

Today’s UK version of the Financial Times reports that the introduction of the minimum wage has reduced the amount of sick leave taken by the lowest paid, with positive effects both for them, their employers and UK plc.. Although this is fairly intuitive – wealth and health correlate and people are less likely to pull [...]

Writing in today’s G2 section of The Guardian, Lionel Shriver asks why it is not acceptable for a modern woman to want to fall in love to be her chiefmost aspiration. The article is worth reading, but this made me think: Yet I would still commend the old-fashioned sequence of 1) fall in love; 2) [...]

Microsoft Microsoft Campus Thames Valley Park Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG Dear Microsoft, I like blogging. I’ve been writing a post recently. It’s about a film called Holy Mountain and I’ve been writing it over a few days because it’s a bit complicated. The film, that is, not the post. Now, I know this isn’t very [...]

I’ve been listening to a band called Portobella recently. Do take a listen. The lead singer, Luciana Caporaso, featured in Yeah Yeah by Bodyrox, which has done well in the charts. I can’t quite understand why Portobella didn’t – they have fantastic songs, particularly Viva La Difference and Covered in Punk. Scroll down the Portobella [...]

I hate the tabloids. I hate them for many reasons, but calling everything an exclusive when it patently isn’t annoys me. I hate the events of soaps being front page news. Today’s Sun and Daily Mirror both have front pages on someone leaving Coronation Street. They both claim to have exclusives on the story. Do [...]

Include “dalton trumbo on demolishing silly books”, “where does elvemage pk”, “dave cole south london” (a different Dave Cole, as I live north of the river) and “unoriginal name dave cole” (someone knows who I am). xD.

I have signed the petition at the Number Ten website. The text of the petition is We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide the ‘Fourth Option’ of direct investment in council housing as an alternative to privatisation by stock transfer, PFI or ALMO, to enable local authorities to respect the choice of their [...]