They work for you Now that the election has been called, you can use this site to find out what your ex-MP did throughout the last parliament. We have performance stats, speeches, voting records and more… theyworkforyou.com More
Good to pub Adaptonyms (also known as textonyms and cellodromes) are words that can be typed with the same sequence of keys on a cell phone using predictive text. For example the sequence “2-3-3” can produce “bed”, “add”, or “bee”. Source: Wikipedia Yesterday I texted a friend to let him know we’d “good to pub”. What I meant... More
Back up (and running) My ISP (PlusNet) just had a major hiccup whilst upgrading their free web-hosting service which resulted in everyone’s files going up in smoke on Thursday morning. As a result my blog was down for the day and there was much chatter on PlusNet’s message boards. Luckily I’ve been backing up my files and data for... More
£3,800 per minute profit That’s how much Tesco makes according to this article by James Robinson in today’s Observer newspaper. That’s not far off a quarter of a million pounds an hour, or £6million per day. Nice work if you can get it. The statistic that really startled me though is that Tesco takes £1 of every £8 we... More
More on East Dulwich East Dulwich came about when four local land owners sold up their estates to building prospectors in the final years of Queen Victoria’s reign. The largest of the four was the Friern Manor Farm estate. On the East Dulwich section of the curiously named Ideal homes: suburbia in focus (complete with garden gnomes in the... More
Change the world for a fiver This week a hugely important UN-backed report, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published about how rapidly we’re destroying our planet. It’s four main findings are: Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the last 50 years than in any other period. This was done largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh... More
In memory of Jacques Cousteau This evening my Dad and I went to see Wes Anderson’s fantastic The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It seems difficult to go wrong with anything with Bill Murray in it these days. I can really recommend it, it felt like a cross between one of my favourite films Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue)... More
A classic example of a late Victorian suburb East Dulwich: is a classic example of a laste Victorian suburb had a cinema between 1938 and 1972 (the building was demolished in 2003) was bombed heavily in World War II during the Blitz and by V1 and V2 flying bombs had electric trams until 1952 was originally in the county of Surrey and in... More
Design is no accident To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. Emil Ruder Typography See entry about Emil Ruder in German Wikipedia More