The Birth of a Brand
As some of you may know, I'm on the Board of the Hillsborough Forum, a group that works for the economic regeneration of the Hillsborough area of Sheffield, and also coordinates other activities in th…
Tagged: personal-stuff
Civil Partership ceremonies on religious premises....some contradiction in terms?
Over the last decade or so, the number of times when New Labour has created legislation in what 'the Simpsons' would call 'the American way' - i.e. do a 'half arsed job' - has been legion. There must…
I sometimes wonder....
As some of you will know, I'm what's best described as an (occasionally) practising Christian. Just to get the joke out of the way early, I'll keep practising and one day I hope to get it right! Yes…
All your personal info belongs to...some web site or other?
This is an interesting little article about a new product from Mozilla Labs for Firefox- it allows you to grab tour personal contact data from various web services and sources, and then keep it in a r…
Facebook user hypocrisy or common sense?
I came across this article in my Twitstream today about how young professionals are changing their name and doing other things to camoflage their presence on Facebook and other social networking sites…
New Media, Old Manners
This post is based on some comments I made on another blog recently - dealing with the question of whether using Social media turns us in to rude bumpkins. Whilst it's true that the decision to parti…
Facebook and the panic button....
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…
Caprica 90210
I am an enormous fan of the re-visioning of 'Battlestar Galactica' - good story and plot, good characters, nice combination of high tech and retro gadgets (loved the old style telephone handset that w…
If this is being a Man, I bagsy being a Penguin...
I have a thing for penguins. I have no idea why, but they appeal to me. It all started 20 odd years ago when I saw the 'Bloom County' cartoon strip that featured Opus the penguin (he who features wh…
Dumb beyond reason - Children's Commissioner suggests raising English Age of Criminality
Regular readers of this blog will realise that there are certain hobby horses that I have. One is that I ask for little from Government except that they do what only Governments CAN and SHOULD do, an…