Clegg won’t win it

It is nigh-on impossible for the Lib Dems to win the upcoming election, even if they improve their share massively. Our first-past-the-post system just doesn’t give them that chance.However, the ability and growing intention (seemingly) of the public to make...

Plane free skies

It was surprisingly nice to have lunch in the garden under oddly blue and quiet skies. I’m not sure what was black of planes and what was volcanic ash, but it was lovely.

Duplicate cleaner

Duplicate Cleaner is a nice application (and free) that has been pretty effective at phase one of wiping out my massive numbers of duplicate photos and music files.

Dying industries, I hope

I sincerely hope that the various pieces of copyright legislation under development across the world are simply the death throes of dying industries. I don’t want to be part of the world they are attempting to bring about (Cory Doctorow in the Grauniad). Rule...

Full Fact fact checks the leadership debate

Amazing that any of the party leaders used figures that were wrong during the debate. But they all did, to little effect on their arguments. The most specific fail for me was Clegg going on about young men being taught to be criminals. The figures don’t appear...