Crunch Accounting provides me with an amazing accountancy service and superb web app for me to manage my everyday business accounts. Yesterday I went on one of my regular “diversions” down an online rabbit hole,…
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On the Microsoft Pro-EU position – how not to write a letter
I wrote in a previous post that I have a gut feeling about the EU referendum. In fact I have a gut feeling about most things, which is all the more reason I like to subject…
Open Letter to Nick Clegg: please re-stand at our party’s leadership election
Dear Nick, “He had to go”; a very British leadership response that shows humility in the face of defeat. Where, in other countries, leaders of defeated parties cannot help themselves but try to hold arrogantly…
I have discovered a new use for chocolate
As an “extreme owl” I often stay awake working in the night time. Mornings are therefore not enjoyable for me. Even when I have a lie-in I can feel grumpy until the coffee flows. I’m…
An open letter to my Facebook friends
Facebook, it seems, has become a front-end for cheap, baiting, advert-laden websites like Buzzfeed and apparently my Facebook friends are falling for it by the droves by posting links to “Top ten tatoo fails”, “8…
One week today
The last seven days have been a blur. I have eaten and slept, but only because of the efforts of my nearest and dearest. One week ago today, a kind man – a man I…
Surely nobody thought “Fiscal Union” was really a good idea?
Far from being an Orwellian nightmare, I love the idea of greater fiscal and political union with our neighbours. Maybe it could even work… in 100-500 years? But right now, as long as different countries…
Clicktivism or Slacktivism?
I know, I know; the Kony 2012 subject has been done to death. I don’t plan to weigh-in too heavily on the debate, except to make a small comment on what the media has termed…
The Pluralist Paradox
Deep down inside of me, there is a swing voter waiting to get out. A true British I-don’t-really-know-what-I-think voter, someone who could go both ways. Hell, I could go three or four ways. I know,…
How Sociable is Facebook towards Developers?
If Facebook wants to be the social ‘platform’ on which the web resides – a grand vision, but an attainable one – it had better start being nicer to web developers. That’s because the new…
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