Facebook echo and rediscovering privacy
Don’t get me wrong: I love Facebook, and I am one of its most shallow users. I’ll post anything – videos and pictures of cats (a lot), pictures of things I’m about…
How much is a packet of digestives? You do the math…
When I was doing my 30-days-without-supermarkets challenge last year, I discovered that there is nothing more slippery and variable than the price of a digestive biscuit. It’s now even more…
Yet another reason not to multi-task
Readers of this blog will know that I have a real thing about mult-tasking, so I’m delighted to read this article on cell-phone accidents in the New Scientist, though not…
Rain-mates! At last!
For all the many hundreds of people who’ve come across my site because of my posts about rain-mates this is for you: Bubble Betty™, “a vintage product brought back to life…
‘Digital natives’? I don’t buy it
I can’t usually watch more than two minutes of a televised debate without fast forwarding or switching off altogether, but I was completely hooked by all 100 minutes of the…
This time, Slovenia: A geography lesson for Telegraph readers
‘Working class pupils ‘perform better in Slovenia than in UK‘ is the headline of an astonishingly crass article in today’s Telegraph. I can’t be bothered to regurgitate all the reasons…