Duncan Macleod posts an interesting set of links pointing to the use of the web to create a ‘viral’ YouTube clip to highlight the conflicting values within Unilever’s campaigns to market their Dove and Axe (Lynx) brands. See Unilever Hypocrisy Exposed » Television Adverts at Duncan’s TV Ad Land, and the associated link Dove Viral…

A list of the top re-read books in the UK. I was surprised at how many of them I’ve re-read. See booktrade.info – Book Trade Announcements – Oops…I Read It Again!

does my ADSL internet speed slow significantly (a crawl?) when it’s raining hard?

On Saturday we all walked down to the local police station for their open day (See Police open doors to the public – Western Leader). It’s one of those places, like hospitals, that you don’t normally get to look around unless you’re preoccupied with some crisis or other, so we thought we’d go an look…

England 12 – 10 Australia France 20 – 19 New Zealand I have it on good authority that the sun won’t be coming up tomorrow and that the Rapture Index will be increasing 🙂

School holidays + other things means that this will be a slow blogging week.

Yes, indeed. It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr!

Death by PowerPoint is an interesting online slideshow presentation about how not to do slideshow presentations (via Tensegrities » Powerpoint “stuff”). A timely link as I’m currently collating material about the effective use of presentation software.

One of my favourite authors, Madeleine L’Engle, has died at the age of 88. I first encountered her work at primary school when I borrowed A Wrinkle In Time from the school library. I read it several times, and then forgot about her work until a few years back when I was working on an…

Today the electric kettle (jug) needed to be replaced. A trivial event, you think – simply go out an buy one. After all, all a kettle does is heat the water in it to boiling and, if you’re lucky, then turn itself off. Useful for making tea and all that. So off I went (with…