Monthly Archives: January 2009

Gaza Crisis Appeal by DEC

This is a Gaza charity appeal by DEC – originally broadcast on ITV in the UK. If you want to put the video on your site, the embed code is here. If you want to donate, go to DEC’s site. The video says it all really.

Loads and Loads and Loads of Unsold Cars

Here’s a Guardian gallery with fleet upon fleet of unsold cars. If you like big pictures of large numbers of small things you’ll LOVE it. Unless you’re a car manufacturer. There’s a huge one of these car facilities on the M5 motorway in England, going south-west towards Clevedon or other Somerset towns. I used to [...]

The Big Picture

One of my favourite blogs is The Big Picture. The idea is simple but amazing – huge, high quality still photographs illustrating recent news events. It’s based at The Boston Globe so right now I’m waiting for pictures from Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony to appear. In the meantime here are the inauguration preparations.

People of the UK! Let’s Show we Care about Government Openness

[ UPDATE 16/02/09: I've had a letter from my MP, Kevin Brennan, in reply to my email. It's dated 12th February 2009 and reads "Thank you for contacting me regarding Freedom of Information and MPs expenses. I believe it is essential that elected representatives should have the support necessary to perform their functions, including the [...]

I am also writing at Native blog

Quick intro to my working situation. Native is a business that helps you with online media, based in Cardiff, Wales. It’s a two-headed partnership, of which the heads are me and Tom Beardshaw. At the moment we are meeting loads of people for coffee: old friends, new friends, clients, potential clients, people who create stuff, [...]

Penrose’s Patent and the Battle of the Tissue Tiles (Contains Mathematics)

This drama has got it all – art, law, maths, a genius professor/knight, a multi-national company, a courtroom… I was reading about Roger Penrose and I realised that today is the 30th anniversary of his success in applying for a patent on Penrose tiling. So this isn’t exactly news, but the anniversary is my excuse [...]