Dear BBC, Right from the start of the Grenfell Tower Enquiry, I have been following the BBC podcasts on the enquiry and about the disaster. I have downloaded and kept each of the podcasts – it is an enormous amount of information, and being able to come back to it… Continue reading
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“We think these services [Google, Facebook etc] are free… …but they think WE are free!” “We think we’re using social media… …but social media is using us! (97% of Fb revenue is from targeted ads.)” “We think we’re searching Google… …but Google is searching us!” “We think the companies have… Continue reading
Miss Mary Spiller: the quiet authority in the garden “Miss Spiller from Waterperry”, a horticulturist widely known and respected in Oxfordshire, and in broader gardening circles, has died at the age of 95. Mary Spiller was a guiding light at Waterperry Gardens near Thame for many years, up until her… Continue reading
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I am back home after 8 weeks travelling around the periphery of Alba (Scotland): from Ardrossan near Glasgow, to the Isle of Arran, across Kintyre (where Ziggy “took off” his rucksack and left it behind!) then through some of the Inner Hebrides, including Iona and Coll, a foray onto Ardnamurchan,… Continue reading
“Google says it received 43,683 US government requests for user data from 124,991 accounts in 2018, and provided the data in in 81 per cent of those requests. ” (Computing, 10 Oct 2019) Zuboff identifies “behavioural surplus” as the source of Google and Facebook’s revenue from their “free” services (and… Continue reading
Weekly averages 22 September 2019: 408.32 ppm 3 October 2018: 405.63 ppm 3 October 2009: 384.73 ppm Pre-industrial base: 280 Safe level: 350 Atmospheric CO2 reading from Mauna Loa, Hawaii (part per million). Source: NOAA-ESRL (Source: The Guardian, October 2019)
This is what my current picture of my trip looks like in my mind: but I have really only written this down to give some possible poste restante dates……I intend to take it as it comes, and I might end up back home in mid-August, fed up with the weather/my… Continue reading
Travelling in August/September 2019 I am leaving on a fast train…to Glasgow and beyond! My second islands trip is planned for August and September, starting with Arran, and finishing up catching the ferry from Stornaway to Ullapool (so I can attempt Cape Wrath). The intention is to walk (and ferry)… Continue reading