Bacon Butty piles on to one of the notions I criticised here. Food miles are, if anything, less useful than embodied energy as a policy target – after all, a whacking 22 per cent of CO2 attributed to UK food transport originates from sea and air transport. Obviously, the first place to start, especially as…
Read More More silly metricsI’ve been thogged by the Ministry. Thogged? Well, it’s a meme going around..name five bloggers who make you think, hence thinking bloggers, hence (thanks to Chris Dillow) thoggers. I don’t usually do these things, partly because obviousness is hard to avoid. But on this occasion, I’m a-thogging the following bethoggen. die Stiftung Leo Strauss, for…
Read More ThoggedNo beheadings in this story, though. Congolese radio station aims to give a microphone to those whose voices have never been heard before. I liked this line: The show’s technicians – after getting caught in Army-militia crossfire twice – finally managed to put up antennas in the region’s more remote rain forest areas. So now…
Read More Just to make a living and help out the CongoleseOK, so I’m trying to create a dropdown menu with around 40 options using the Python lib Tkinter. I’ve just learned that you can’t just define a command – call it get – and pass in the option as a variable (i.e. def get(variable) and then, for option X, command=get(X)), which brings me the horrible…
Read More Bleggin’All you need to know about Gordon Brown is contained in this story in the Financial Times. Specifically, this response to criticism of his decision to fund the 2% tax cut for basic rate income tax payers by extending the basic rate downwards: The Conservatives argue, of course, that the complex set of income tax…
Read More Gordon Brown: no betterI keep saying it. There will be no war with Iran. The Americans do not have the military resources to start one. Over at AFOE, I calculated they would need a third carrier group plus 100 land-based strike aircraft and extensive tanker, AWACS, Rivet Joint, and other supports, just for the air strikes. Two carrier…
Read More I tell ’em sorry, I haven’t got the money any moreNote that blogging is currently slow, due to a little project of mine that is taking up spare mindshare. The Guardian Column Generator should be operational by next week or thereabouts. Gah, it’s hard to start programming again, but it’s the satisfaction of craft.
Read More Slow BloggingSo, Cyclone George tore through the old haunts, killing three people on a mining railway construction camp. Could have been worse, though – it got up to 275 Km/h.. This bloke stuck it out in South Hedland, and has photos.
Read More Cyclone Blogging: EyewitnessOK, then, someone’s been complaining about this blog’s general appearance, specifically the javascript clock that Internet Explorer sufferers can see around their cursors. It’s Web 2.0. Honest. Fools. Just imagine if I had decided to ignore the user testing feedback and unleash this TYR Beta from December, 2004 on the world. I really can’t imagine…
Read More Somebody’s been criticising my web designSneaking through the barrio, I came on a bleakly lighted doorway, that bore the mark of the cult… The place called itself a “Poulperia”, which I took to mean it specialised in squid.
Read More I am the god of hellfire and I bring you squid