The BBC World Service strikes again. This time a report on plastic bags. I’m serious, it was really interesting. In Bangladesh, plastic bags have been banned. They were responsible for all kinds of environmental problems. I think it’s a great idea. Our perception of the plastic bag has to change so that we either ban…

“We can cover ourselves in Deep Heat and get up against a radiator. Keep ourselves alive until twelve.” So said Withnail during a cold London winter. I’m close to doing the same thing. The flaw in this scheme is that the boiler is on the blink and so the radiators aren’t all that warm. The…

Woo hoooh – we’re flying to Rome in the morning. We are getting picked up by the cab at *3:45am*. I hope the 4:30 Stansted Express isn’t delayed (like the rest of the London rail network regularly is) and we make our flight. I have to confess that I am a little nervous about missing…

This is Mk 1.2 of bucket_fountain. It features an improved and slightly slimmer style-sheet, a more readable yet still garish colour, improved navigation for accessing previous blogs, and a number of other minor tweaks. It lays the foundation for my next trick, which will involve more CSS refinement, improved snaps navigation, and maybe a comments…

This t-shirt got me thinking about how different things could be if we all took our red pills . This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the…

We went to a great party in Brixton on Saturday to celebrate Melina’s engagement. After having a beaut dinner at Claire’s amazing house, where we got completely smashed, we were driven into Brixton by a pretty cool cabbie who cranked his stereo right up. We went to the bar, and got completely annihilated and then…

I went to a mate’s engagement party last night, but stopped for some chinese tucker first. The restaurant was small and very quiet, so you could hear conversations at the other tables without even trying (honest!). There were a bunch of older guys at a table near us, talking about – I still can’t get…

Today sees the addition of a new section on the bucket fountain, the ‘snaps’ link. This has actually always been in the design, I was just never happy with it so never had a link to it. Then I broke it and have only just gotten around to fixing it. The whole thing makes me…

Had some folk over on Saturday afternoon for drinks. The plan was to have a few drinks and then head out clubbin’ or some such. But no, at 5am on Sunday we were still there. I think I’m still slightly toasted, but starting to get my head together. A good time was had by all,…

This dude lives around the corner apparently. I’d never heard of him until his house was pointed out to me. When I then saw him on the box I was a little dissappointed. So what am I listening too? London radio is generally bollocks, so I have settled on the BBC World Service. It reminds…