Excel Gantt

A new (to me) Excel Gantt tool that looks useful. I’m still using the conditional formatting option for most day-to-day options, though.

Oyster everywhere

Praise be! This is so obviously the right idea – an open pan-London smartcard system. Not that I use trains much, but it would make life so much easier (97k options to 21, for a start). Given how much I use it as near cash (pay-as-you-go with auto top-up), I...

Church headquarters

Surely it must gall Scientologists that £23m of their contributions (are they called tithes?) went on buying a building, let alone the cost of fitting it out and running it? Same with the Sally Army, whose enormous HQ near the wobbly bridge is equally poor taste....

Deaths, damn deaths

Two different approaches to the number of deaths in Iraq explained and evaluated. It’s the first time I’ve seen the two sets of numbers discussed rationally and effectively. Why can’t the broadsheets (what is the new collective term for their smaller...