Intimations of mortality

Very sad to hear the news that Doug Wilson died of leukaemia aged 46. He recruited me into Datamonitor and was a large part of the reason I joined. He was a good boss for me straight out of university and a good person. Read the tribute page from the company he...

Fiat van

There was a Fiat van in front of the cab on the way home tonight. I wondered if I should phone someone in it to give them directions. That’s choir tours do to ones mind.

Mash on drugs

THE campaign to legalise drugs was today backed by someone whose only qualification is to know exactly what he is talking about. via The Daily Mash – LEGALISE DRUGS, SAYS SOME CRAZY PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

Privacy is a blip

Julian Baggini: Does the Facebook generation care about privacy? You didn’t get much privacy in a town of 1,000 people. Neither three-or-more-in-a-bed in a back-to-back. Nor working 12-14 hour days in the pits. The argument: our last 100 years of increasing...