My feet are freezing. I’m seriously considering just clambering under the duvet when I get home and not coming out until spring.
Potty Time!
Dow Jones to be sued
Dow Jones to be sued in Australian courts for defamation. Does this mean than Afghan citizens will be able to sue American warbloggers under Islamic law, for example? I think, more than ever, one needs to be careful about what is written.
UPDATE: legal implications fleshed-out a little by the BBC.
192 directory enquiries to be
192 directory enquiries to be replaced. This doesn’t seem a good idea to me – looks like it will simply offer not so much "choice" as confusion. Besides, with full and complete phone listings available for free at services like ukphonebook.com, it seems hard to understand why anyone who has net access would use 192 (at 40p per go) at all.
192 is free when dialled from a payphone. I once was in an estate agents here when one of the staff members got up, went to the callbox immediately outside, and came back a moment later. I asked if there was a problem with the phone on her desk. "Oh no – we just use the payphone for 192 because then we don’t pay for it!"
Ah! how useful! An online
Ah! how useful! An online resource for witches, pagans and heathens in Colombia.
Steve updates his site via
Steve updates his site via WebTV, and creates one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in ages.
AFF: a shockingly good 13
AFF: a shockingly good 13 points, one of the best scores in the league this week, pushing me 17 places up the table. Not sure how I did that, but it would be good to do it again next week!
“Sack Duncan Smith”, says Hezza.
“Sack Duncan Smith”, says Hezza.
I think he’s right, but I don’t think this is the way to do it.
BBC report. Independent: interview with Hezza, analysis and editorial.
UPDATE: good interpretation and analysis by Nick Assinder, which I think is largely about right, more so than the Indy editorial.
Flaming cold this morning as
Flaming cold this morning as I stood on a train platform, staring at the screen that said “due to a temporary fault we are unable to provide train running information”. This in spite of the fact that I was wearing my new pimp-tastic jacket (a.k.a. the dead dog).
Colombian link du jour, supplied
Colombian link du jour, supplied by stevem: Znet Colombia. Interesting, if a little radical for me. I’m not entirely convinced by all the arguments here, but they provide an interesting counterpoint to the traditional media links I provided the other day, and thus a good starting point for discussion.