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I love City of Cape Town’s press department
Even if I were to quite media tomorrow, I would never unsubscribe from Cape Town’s press list. Because this came through this morning: Just after 04:00 on Saturday morning, a member of the Integrated Roadblock Unit tried to stop a white VW Jetta traveling towards Kuils River without headlights. The driver refused to stop, resulting…
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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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Brighton City Camp Day 3
I’ll be writing this up properly tomorrow for a real website. In the meantime, enjoy what happened today via the medium of pictures. [fsg_gallery id=”1″] (Also, check out the funky new Flickr Slideshow plugin^^, beats the thumbnails that were there a moment ago)
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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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And we’re off: City Camp Brighton 2012
I’m attending the weekend long hackathon that is City Camp Brighton this weekend, which started today with an afternoon at the Sallis Benney Theatre on Grand Parade. It moves to Falmer Stadium tomorrow where 150 people get together to come up with ideas for improving the city. The concept is straightforward. Coders, community workers, council…
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Why HTML newsletters suck
A particularly odd newsletter from West Sussex County Council this week. Delivered via email, it looks like this in Mozilla Thunderbird. Why is the council sending me a giant green button with a telephone in it? I genuinely have no idea. I think its something to do with the first story, which has been bumped off the…
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Things you don’t expect to find in a skip outside a police station
A giant orange and black stuffed shark. I would love to know how this got confiscated.
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Why does the department of education advertise on Google?
Flicking through some recent Hansard archives (10th Oct) and came across this curiousity: “Damian Hinds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) his Department and (b) its predecessor spent on search engine biasing with (i) Google and (ii) other search engines in each of the last five years. [10014] “Tim Loughton:…
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A day in the life of Shoreham-by-Sea
Over in Agora taking part in the Brighton Future of News group’s experimental live blog talking to people in Shoreham-by-Sea. Peter is one of my favourite interviewees of the day so far.
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Worthing Pier Day
Bit late putting these up on Flickr – shots from a couple of weeks ago at Worthing Pier Day.
