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Here’s a photo of Archie:

I liked this piece by Dr Nick Foreman published in The Independent: “The day I hit a child at 20mph – and realised the speed limit must be cut“.

Being successful in Britain is a real challenge. A lot of people I speak to don’t quite believe how difficult it is. Jealousy is institutionalised across the population (with few exceptions). Anyone seeking to better themselves is very much encouraged not to do so. Not to stand up, not to be counted, not to take [...]

Here’s one of the former British Government Cabinet Ministers, Stephen Byers, explaining that he’s ‘a bit like a cab for hire’. The Telegraph explains: Three former Cabinet ministers, Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon, have been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over allegations they tried to sway policy decisions by lobbying the Government. [...]

One of the best adverts I’ve ever seen — from the chaps at travel firm, Lastminute.com. I watch it now and gain to remind myself not to get too drawn into life’s mini challenges…

You can see Malcolm Tucker in the recent movie, In The Loop, or in the BBC TV Series, The Thick Of It. If you liked Yes Prime Minister — and can handle thick-Scottish-accent cursing, take a look at the video…

I do a lot of WordPress installations. A ton. Indeed I think I’ve setup about five WordPress installations in the last two weeks. And it can be a little bit annoying, having to download the zip file, unzip and then wait for hundreds of tiny files to upload. Then I discovered EasyWP. It’s a PHP [...]

Heh! Woot! My University, University College London, is now ranked number 4 on the planet. We’ve inched ahead of Oxford (number 5, joint with Imperial) and we’re just behind Yale (3) and Cambridge (2) with Harvard at the number 1 spot. Go UCL! UCL! US and UK institutions still dominate the top 10: * Harvard [...]

Dan Ilett just sent this across as a reminder of a piece he wrote back in 2007 for the Financial Times: Ewan MacLeod was angry. He had been charged for sending an e-mail from a mobile phone via a package that claimed to offer free, unlimited data usage. Months after he had written about the [...]

And this is what I put in the ‘any other comments’ section: The online setup process was simply brilliant. Found the post-code, selected my services, chose my delivery date, typed in my bank details… everything was smooth and efficient. THEN a day later, someone from Virgin tried phoning me to take 49 quid off me [...]