Archive for August, 2008

A shrewd pick for VP

Saturday, August 30th, 2008


Absolutely priceless.

Enjoyably bad jokes

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Well, I laughed, even if no-one else will!

Things that have recently made our lives easier - part 1

Friday, August 29th, 2008

(yes, this one’s a very London thing)…

The Oyster card

What an invention - no need to queue up, no need to worry about carrying change, a fantastically simple card that allows me to travel whenever I want. It makes me feel free, liberated, and blissfully ignorant of what the Tube wants to charge me for my bus and train rides. Did you know 80% of London journeys know use the Oyster card….

Love it.

(Yes privacy activists, there’s a lot to be worried about. But really, you don’t care what google knows about you, do you?)

What do we write about?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008


Wordle has an intriguing product on offer that really tells you what you talk about. The above is a word cloud of the most popular words on our blog to date.

Weekend, homework and Lennon? Raskin, help and terrifying? Says a lot about us? I have no idea, but it definitely makes me want to be a little more careful with my words.