Month: October 2010

• BBC News – Solar bag could solve energy needs of mobile phone users
  Works best on sunny days. In Greece. Not likely to charge up much at all on a wet October morning in England.
  solar energy technology science computer

• Birlea Denver 5ft King Size White Bed
  Seems a very good price for this bed. Our existing one is broken. No jokes, thank you.
  furniture bed

• Hastings pier on fire | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  "You Can Save Me", reads the banner. It's going to take quite something to save the pier now.
  Hastings pier fire news photographs

• BBC News – Rare bumblebees make comeback in Kent and Sussex
  Hurrah! This spring was a good one for bees too, with plenty of good flying days.
  bees nature conservation Sussex
• BBC News – Hastings Pier engulfed and destroyed by fire
  This is terrible. Hastings has been struggling to pull itself up over recent years – the improvements in the George Street area, the restoration of the West Hill Lift and now the redevelopment of the Stade. But all of these were at the eastern (old) end of town. The western end of the front, the area around the pier, is still shabby. The town had bought the pier and this week calls were put out for designs for restoring the pier to make it the centrepiece of regeneration of the western end of the front. I wonder if it will now be a sad burnt out shell, like Brighton's West Pier, with no chance of restoration, left to slowly rot into the sea.
  Hastings Sussex pier fire news

• BBC – Viewfinder: Street photography now
  I always feel slightly uncomfortable taking photos of strangers. But you do see some great things that are fleeting, momentary, yet somehow one feels that they should be preserved.
  photography opinion street

• Cost-saving perennial planting system offers help to hard-pressed council teams | Horticulture Week
  It would be good, in my view, for local authorities to use perennials for planting more widely. But I'm not holding my breath for sudden change.
  perennials plants amenity horticulture

• Pallas’s Cat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Meow.
  cats wild nature

• BBC News – Crowdsourcing: Turning customers into creative directors
  Interesting. I'm not sure that crowdsourcing can be applied in all areas of design and creation (you can't do it for most aspects of car design, for example, due to technical and legislative requirements), but it could certainly put pressure on a few job titles in the workplace. It isn't a panacea for those areas where it can be applied, either.
  business bbc crowdsourcing ecommerce marketing