After touring the Far East and western Europe for an aeon, my 12″ iBook finally arrived this morning (possibly some sort of telepathy on Apple’s part, as I was going to cancel the order if it hadn’t turned up by Monday). Anyway, I’ll save my grumbles about Apple’s poor choice of shipping companies and crap [...]
As my iBook still hasn’t arrived, I wanted something else to play with in the meantime, and so popped along to Battersea Dog’s Home today and picked up two cats. After some form-filling and vetting (no pun intended) I found myself in “Feline Street” faced with dozens of impossibly cute cats. God, talk about a [...]
RIP habeas corpus. RIP the presumption of innocence.
You might however consider whether you should not unfold as a background the great privilege of habeas corpus and trial by jury, which are the supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals against the state. The power of the Executive to cast a man into [...]
Wow, I must really have my finger on the pulse of what’s fashionable in London; today’s Guardian Guide includes a review of OQO in Islington, nearly a week after I wrote about my evening out there.
A Chinese tapas cocktail bar sounds eccentric and gimmicky. But with serious culinary skill and bar smarts, this new venture [...]
If you live in south London, you’ve probably moaned about the lack of tube lines compared to north of the river. For proof of the inequality, take a look at the upside-down tube map, which shows how where the underground lines and stations would be situated if the system were flipped north-south. The site also [...]
Link edited so it now works. I wasted a couple of hours last night trying to put names to the photos of the acts in this poptastic quiz (direct link to large MS Excel file). It’s actually the swankiest Excel file I’ve ever come across — you type in the name and it tell you [...]
There’s an interesting article over at Wired suggesting that the Wall Street Journal is in danger of becoming irrelevant because it charges people to view its articles online.
Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace… I googled “Enron” — [...]
Typical. I finally get round to upgrading Firefox from PR1 to 1.0, and three days later they release Firefox 1.0.1 with a bunch of security fixes.
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