Author: nickjones

This is an email post to the blog.    

This is an experiment to see if I can get the Netgear Router to blog its own security alerts.

A moving plea from Rachel from north London: Journalists please read: “now hundreds of journalists from all over the world wanting to speak to survivors, and most of them seem to be trying to do so via me. I am sorry, but I can’t help” The problem is that Rachel is torn between two worlds […]

An excellent and fun tool from the Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis enabling you to check the distribution of your surname in the UK (excluding Ireland) for the years 1881 and 1998. The map is for Jones in 1881Purple areas are the highest concentrations (then red > orange >yellow > white)

BBC Radio 4 – Open Country – 9 August 2003: “Richard learns that watercress contains more Vitamin C than fresh oranges and more calcium that cow’s milk.” and thats after visting the wild swimming website

The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans. An excellent petition that I can encourage you to sign. Yes a record company company AGAINST suing its fans for downloading music

Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful […]

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for youLatest figures 2005 Ministry of Transport £244,500,000Defence £547,672,000 (operating costs) plus £134,466,000 (additions)Northern Ireland £10,724,000Dept Culture Media and Sport £64,600,000Welsh office £176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie £60 per person on IT alone!)International Development have no clue as to what […]

Chris Huhne recently asked the government for details of IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Ministers office since 2002 and Department for Communities and Local Government since 2006.The answer is :- Financial year Expenditure (£) 2002-03 26,748,425 2003-04 20,913,037 2004-05 16,815,471 2005-06 18,108,962 and this lovely bit “There is no central record of project Executives, […]

Just invited today to try the latest in online web creation pages at Wetpaint. It transpires that it is just a hosted wiki site, cant see that it contains a blog as well, hard to see how this moves the game along at all. As for competing with MySpace well! The page I have started […]