The Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and its senate companion Protect IP Act PIPA are causing all sorts of bother on the internet today with sites such as Wikipaedia closing down in protest. Superficially, this is about Silicon Valley disrupting the media industry. We’ve seen the effect of downloads on the music industry and the [...]
Visited Wikipedia today to find something out, only to discover that it’s blacked out? Wondered why? Read on (text reproduced from Wikipedia, under permission)…
Why is Wikipedia blacked-out?
Wikipedia is protesting against SOPA and PIPA b…
Last year, I did something unprecedented. I joined a gym.
I was convinced that gyms were lined with mirrors and stuffed full of Malibu Barbie types. That I would break a leg the second I stepped foot on a treadmill. But my brother, a man so relentles…
This week I’m delighted to present my interview with author Isabel Ashdown. Her latest novel, Hurry Up and Wait! kept me awake for a whole night as I couldn’t put it down. I do love coming- of-age stories … They say the second book is the hardest, b…
Blogger Jennifer Ward Pellar of MilitaryZeroWaste commented that she really likes the audio track I made with the sound of dripping water, so I thought I’d introduce you to the creator of that dripping water – Soundclouder Dave McKeown. An …
As I write, the polls are opening in Taiwan’s 5th popular elections for President.I’ve belatedly been watching a few videos about the election including this one of the election eve rallies for CNN iReport and this one, a rap in Chinese subtitled “Keep…
There’s nothing to beat the January blues like a good night of music, and at January’s Fractured Toast that’s exactly what we got. Run by Overhead Wires, Fractured Toast is a songwriters’ circle where you get to hear the stories behind the performers’ songs. The support act for the evening was the folk-sounding and harmonious [...]
I have a few housekeeping issues to sort out following December’s climatic rumpus. First of all, I am without a telly; my aerial has become bent – I can get CBeebies and occasional blasts of Tomasz Schafernaker but precious little else. I have also lost yet another fence panel. Is this God’s way of trying [...]
