I see Google Streetview has gone live today. Like (I suspect) most people interested in tech, I have spent the day looking up all the old places I used to live etc. I was most impressed to hear that one of my mates looked up his flat, and found that the picture showed not just the flat, but him standing in the doorway to it ( Read more... )

God, I have been lax about updates lately ( Read more... )

..."the specially-designed "mobile urban gaols" - or "MUGs"...

I just can't read this entire article without hearing Chris Morris. Seriously, is this the sort of carefully considered, reasoned, soundbite eschewing policy I have to look forward to if/when the Tories get back in?

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Well, this is quite the oddest story I've read in a while ( Read more... )

Nice quiet weekend; mum and was down from Friday to Sunday. After the week of redundancy hell at work, I felt distinctly stressed Friday night, so drank a little too much that night. Other than that it was a very low-key few days ( Read more... )

Ah no. John Martyn died. He was one of the few singers that I really wanted to see live but never had.

Very sad :(

Life is very dull at the moment - Ali and I are both on a diet, so it's no booze during the week, plenty of salad and early to bed. It's working, but it sure ain't interesting. That said, I've noticed a big difference in productivity at work - I'm absolutely destroying it currently ( Read more... )

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Time traveler wiki". Well, it made me laugh.