So I’ve spent the last four days in New York, one of the world’s great cities. So what do I make of it? I was staying with a friend who works at New York University and lives in a university
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Dale’s blog list – no boycott here
Iain Dale is compiling a new edition of his guide to UK political blogging, revising the work that was done last year, and part of that is an appeal for readers of his blog to rank their top 10 political
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New York street signs
Walking down the street in Manhattan is an assault on the senses – masses to see everywhere, the sidewalks brimming with life (and people selling hotdogs in the 30º heat), blasts of heat from the subway ventilation grills, and an
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Statue of Liberty
Set against the darkening New Jersey sky.
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Land of the free – stars and stripes between bars
Getting into the USA over the Canada-USA border for sure didn’t feel like entering the land of the free. But maybe you’re supposed to feel that when you’re here? Not sure.
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Brooklyn from Brooklyn Bridge
Summer haze, and a maze of wires.
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Politicians and computers
Iain Dale has a short post about how it has emerged that John McCain is incapable of using the internet and e-mail. Dale puts it down to McCain’s age – perhaps true, but not the whole story if my experience
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Three half truths about high prices
High prices! For everything! UK / USA / EU countries heading for recession! So scream the newspapers and most of the media. Yet there are 3 aspects of all of this paranoia that really frustrate me – even beyond the
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Oh so quiet
I am still alive, it’s just that I have not had much time to do anything this week except try to get a massive pile of work under control. However a small idea has been brewing at the back of
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Atheist bus campaign starts to roll
Back on 20th June I posted a short entry about how an atheist ad on a bus would be a fun idea, after an initial Comment is Free article by Ariane Sherine. I made a mockup in Photoshop of how
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick
OK, the subject of this entry is not because I’ve been on the wrong end of something next to Gare de Midi. It’s more metaphorical than that. It’s actually a line from a Steve Jobs speech given at Stanford University
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Political blogging – something to bite
Completely unbeknown to me a debate has kicked off in the last couple of days about what Labour and Conservative bloggers in the UK will do if the UK gets a Tory government sometime soon. Charlie Beckett kicked things off
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