A miscellany of opinions, thoughts, rants and comments
Today is formally the first day of Advent, the start of the Christmas season. So, to kick off, here’s my list of the twenty best Christmas singles ever written:
Fairytale of New York – The Pogues and Kirsty McColl
Merry Christmas, Everybody – Slade
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – Wizzard
Saviour’s Day – Cliff Richard [...]
There’s a theory which has been doing the political rounds for a while now, which is that the result of every British general election in the modern era (that is, since the advent of universal suffrage) has been the “right” one in terms of putting the party best equipped to run the country into Downing [...]
If the civil libertarians, the conspiracy theorists and the Conservatives had their way, Abdul Azad would probably never have been caught. Azad was convicted of a brutal stranger rape in Stafford in July 2005 after fragments of his skin were recovered from under his victim’s fingernails and yielded a DNA profile matching his record on [...]
In the course of a discussion about fixed v fluid width layouts for web pages, I dared to make the comment that fixed width design can actually be a usability bonus in some cases – something which is close to heresy among web design purists. As I pointed out, most web users are non-technical, and [...]
Hot on the heels of an EU regulation that could, if actually implemented and enforced, destroy the advertising-supported economy of websites based in Europe, the British government comes up with a proposal of its own that is equally ludicrous.
For those that may have missed it, the EU recently published a set of regulations that will [...]
Awoke to the sound of wind and rain, elements lashing the bedroom window, wheels splashing in the road. Cats cowering in the kitchen, unwilling to risk the perils that lie beyond the flap. Short walk to the newsagents, streets unusually deserted even for a Sunday morning, fallen leaves swirling round my feet and tumbling, twisting [...]