Ash Cloud 2011: Anthem
That is all. Hopefully it’ll be stuck in all your heads now, as it’s been in mine for the last 9 hours or so.
View ArticleObama vs The Queen – FIGHT
vs Obama 1: Her Majesty 0. Rematch requested at the Tio Pepe factory requested, apparently.* * Not true.
View ArticleIs Malaysia becoming a laughing stock in the eyes of the global press? Or a...
Two news stories that made the International press this week highlight the shifting role of Malaysia – my birth-country – on the global scene. Only a few years ago, it was held up as an example of a...
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Stowe’s soup poison scandal
Bizarre story in the Guardian – apparently: Stowe school chef tells court she saw kitchen porter poisoning soup Drama lives on in those green and pleasant lands. Incidentally, inflation seems to have...
View ArticleFrench gov’t bans mentions of social networks by name on radio
I love this: How do you say Facebook and Twitter in French? You don’t – at least, not if you are on radio or television, where French officials have banned any mention of them unless they are...
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Does @UKVolkswagen deserve the Greenpeace Death-Star treatment?
Scot points me at this very, very polished anti-VW campaign, a car maker whose eco-credentials we’ve been evaluating for a little while whist looking for a replacement for the ageing Skoda (aka...
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Bersih 2011–fighting for electoral reform in Malaysia
Malaysia has been a bit late to the anti-government protests shaking the Islamic world. Understandably so; protests in Malaysia are always clamped down on hard (technically it is illegal to form any...
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Awesome maths geekery
I loved this story. Google bid random mathematical numbers for the Nortel patents, including Pi billion dollars. Fantastic. Trying to imagine Dr Evil demanding that in a blackmail demand, and I can’t...
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Citizens of the world
My cousin Sumisha, studying in Australia, writes a fascinating piece on dual citizenship for her student union paper – dual citizenship is illegal in Malaysia, Iran and 58 other countries, apparently....
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Now is the summer of our discontent…
My family around the world are looking on the riots in London with concern for us and disbelief that this could be happening. Riots are not something you associate with one of the most developed...
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Rail price rises have me steaming
Prior to becoming an out-of-London-commuter, rail ticket rises never bothered me. An "8%" rise amounted to 10p or so on a tube ticket and whilst the incremental creep on that has made it feel more...
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Cambridge ‘best Uni in the world’
Huzzah for my alma mater in the global round-up, in which Cambridge pips Harvard to the post for the second year running. Love the Guardian’s take on it: looks at the list, compares the fee-going...
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The evolution of the Billy bookcase
Having recently written about the impact digital books were having on my Billy bookcases I was amused and fascinated to read in the Economist that Ikea is redesigning the archetypal bookcase for the...
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That Greenpeace / VW campaign (con’t)
I continue to be a bit perplexed when it comes to the anti-VW campaign Greenpeace is mounting (latest here), for a number of reasons. Greenpeace is upset because… VW advertises its eco-line,...
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Red boxes and digital government
I’m looking at the digitisation of government quite a lot at the moment for work and red an amusing piece a colleague flagged to us and was amused (but not surprised) to read: “Nick Herbert, Tory...
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The Brexit alien insurgency theory
I’m not much of a political commentator and this post is driven by a need to make sense of what’s going on in the wider world, Brexit and beyond. Plus, y’know, jetlag ‘creativity.’ I’ll also caveat...
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