Monthly Archives: July 2006
Who is Ashley Highfield?
Here I go again, off-topic and annoying the punters, but I really have to link to this article by Tom Coates. He used to work for the BBC, now he works for Yahoo. He’s writing about Ashley Highfield who has … Continue reading
BP shuts down 12 Alaska oil wells
Yeah, right on BP, you’re so environmentally friendly. Workers blow the whistle on your polluting Alaskan oil wells, you shut down the wells while you investigate, the price of oil goes up again, you get richer. Have you seen that … Continue reading
Tilley Endurables
When I volunteered to go on a trip for work to cover the end of the war in Yugoslavia back in 1995 my employers sent me on a very comprehensive Battlefield First-Aid course. A BBC journalist, John Schofield, had just … Continue reading
Internet Cameras Direct: A Warning
I usually register with sites using a unique email address based on the site’s name. It seems a bit paranoid but it means that if a spammer gets hold of the mail database from that site I can easily find … Continue reading
Golden Brown
When I was a child my parents were very keen Labour Party activists so they used to have meetings and social events at our house. As I got older I started to think that the people who came to these … Continue reading
Heaven
I know I don’t write a blog about poetry. I don’t know anything about poetry plus I don’t know how to write about it plus if you change the subject of your blog the reader becomes frustrated like finding sugar … Continue reading