The other week, I was grovelling back through my LJ archive for something else, when I found the set of posts surrounding my attempts to do enough miles to feel fit enough to tackle the Dunwich Dynamo. The short version is that I had a rather good time pottering across Wiltshire in a 100k challenge ride (Still got the cert somewhere) and was ( Read more... )

Obviously the thing I'm not writing about in the last piece is the quite monumentally fucked up state of $work.

It's all a bit Slater-Walker at the moment.

( River Avon, Bath, this afternoon. New riverside development somewhat damper than envisaged. )

Good heavens. You don't say. Cor crikey. Etc.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/09/22/what-f8-means-for-advertisers-the-ability-to-target-users-based-on-media-consumption/

An added bonus of users sharing more about themselves and their ( Read more... )

It seems to be some largely unexamined function of 'social networking' that no matter how well or poorly designed the 'contact management' functionality may be, there will be a set of people who will immediately exploit it to create maximal drama.

I mean, we bugger along with LJ's unfortunate overloading of the word 'friend' and have to generate ( Read more... )

(A real programme on the BBC, shamefully enough ( Read more... )

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Is it just me, or does that Mark Undercover-Copper bollix have the sort of face one could merrily slap? Smug cod-Levellers-i've-a-tribal-tattoo-and-i'm-a-vegan wanker.

(Perhaps I shall assume that everyone at the next Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is in the Polis. That'll wind the buggers up.)

Car rental in the US: quoted cost - $175. Actual cost - $400.

Van rental in the UK: quoted cost- £400. Actual cost - £400.

(I haven't rented a car in this country for about a decade, but I am tolerably sure that the cost doesn't more than double.)