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Take a Girl Child to Work Day
Read the wrong way, Take a Girl Child to Work Day could sound rather sinister – imagine it said in a ‘bring your Earthling followers to the meat grinder’ voice, for example. But it’s actually a pretty cool annual event designed to expose school kids to the world of work and hopefully encourage them to…
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The surrealist’s day
So far, my experiences with South African bureaucracy haven’t been too bad as bad as I was led to believe they might be. There’s been long queues and waiting around for things to get done, but my biggest issues have been with the UK company that’s handling our household goods. And the banks – but…
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Small firms worry about Green Deal
An interesting morning today at the Eco Technology Show and Smart Business Conference, which are taking place at Falmer Stadium in Brighton this weekend. The highlight was a debate between MPs Caroline Lucas (leader of the Green Party), Greg Barker (Minister for Climate Change, Con) and Norman Baker (Undersecretary of State for Transport, Lib) titled…
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Who closed the river on Jubilee weekend?
I meant to write a long blog about what I got up to on Jubilee weekend (my views are staunchly republican) but ended up taking a bit of time off instead. Which was long overdue and, I hope, deserved. Here’s an interesting thing that few have pointed out, though. The official Republic protest by the…
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Sonia on International Women’s Day
Very happy to see a picture of mine has been chosen by the Guardian for International Women’s Day. I’ve written about Sonia many times in the past – she’s one of the most inspirational people I know. Bright, intelligent and with enough family problems that she could and probably should be doing anything she wanted…
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Brighton CityCamp Day 2
It’s been a long day at City Camp Brighton, and I was late (as ever) for the start. But also enormously productive and interesting. I’ve sat in on discussions about everything from digital inclusion and how to help people facing benefit cuts to save money, to a fascinating idea about using QR codes to make…
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Metro journalists can’t tell research from garbage
Also can’t tell: arse from elbows, news from garbage and – funnily enough – real world from fantasy. I suspect – given that the sample size quoted is a Douglas Adams-ey 42 people – that the Metro has just fallen victim to one of those hoax press release spoofers.
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Electric cars, solar powered plant
Strange how little coverage this story got this week: Renault is planning on putting solar panels on the roof of its French factories and distribution centres that are capable of producing 60MW of electricity a year. I’ve no idea how that compares to the company’s total power requirements (their stated aim is 20%…
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It’s… it’s… No, I give up.
I get sent a lot of press releases in the course of a working day. Sometimes it can literally be hundreds. It’s my fault for not hunkering down and sticking to one subject matter to write about. I get everything from update reports on hospitals in Libya to… well… this. It’s… one of the few…
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The Kindle is ace for books
But nothing else. I’ve tried really hard to like the periodicals download, really I have. I’ve paid for the Independent, the Financial Times and the New Statesman, mainly because I’ve felt so guilty reading all their content online for free for so long. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on my reading magazine articles on a Kindle…
