We Should Be Ship Building…

So Elvis Costello laments in his 1982 song about the devastating impact of the, then recent, shutting down of shipyards in the North East. For those who have only lived in commercial based cities like London, it’s hard to relate to the towns and cities whose economy and identity are dominated and closely linked to a specific industry. More

Beyond the Call of Duty

A blind novelist, who wrote 26 pages without realising there no ink in her pen has been saved by police forensic experts. Trisha Vickers took her blank manuscript to local police in Winfirth, Dorset. The forensic team said they’d do what they could and began spending their lunch breaks studying the pen’s indentations under special lights. Last week , after five months of painstaking work, they were able to return all but one line of the chapter to its ‘gobsmacked’ author.

Google Saved My Life

This post has been put here just to improve my search rankings. Just kidding.

To those of you who have no interest in writing code for the web, hearing people going on about the merits of Google Chrome or Internet Explorer may seem a bit pointless. A bit like petrol heads comparing carburettas. Who cares as long as the car goes! More