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Beauly-Denny
below is a copy of my letter to the First Minister of Scotland regarding the environmental destruction about the be wrought by the upgrade to the Beauly-Denny power transmission line. For context on this see here and here and here and here and here.
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[My address removed]
9th November 2009
Rt. Hon. Alex Salmond MSP
Office of the First [...]
Extremists
There has been a lot of debate over the last few weeks about the BBC’s decision to allow the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, to appear on the Question Time programme. I wanted to set-out some of my thoughts on this.
To be clear: I hate and dispise the BNP. It is vile, [...]
Conversation with my five-year-old son
Him: Daddy. My brain knows the answer to every question!
Me: (Thinks) Ok. Is it possible to factor any number in linear time?
Him: (Without stopping to think) Yes!
Me: How?
Him: … I don’t know…
Me: Ah. Well… Which painting is better – the Raft of the Medusa or the Mona Lisa?
Him: The Daft of the Haducer?
Economy. Stupid.
I love it when this thing forces me to think.
The blog post that would have been here – about the economy no less – is sitting safely in the drafts folder until I figure-out a way to express my opinion on that subject without it being full of logical holes and arguments that are just… [...]
Test
This is a test of posting a blog entry from my G1 using Postbot.
Ten years of MSDN Magazine could be yours!
I have ten years of Microsoft Systems Journal / MSDN Magazine (Oct 1997 to Feb 2007) taking up space in my house. The local universities have (wisely) declined my offer to donate them. If you want them and Google has brought you here then you can have them. You collect. I’m in South Manchester (UK).
After [...]
Being Mobile
Yesterday I bought a T-Mobile G1 – the “Googlephone”.
I haven’t had much time to play with it yet, but it seems like a great piece of technology.The broadband access to email and maps, the user-interface, and the general build quality are very good. I hear it also does phone calls. I hope to have more [...]
Thank you America
As i read my newspaper on the train this morning, with the Cheshire countryside slipping past, reading about the hope and joy being expressed by ordinary Americas for what might come next, you made me quietly and briefly cry.
Tagged Politics USA