Notes from a curious life.

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 […]

Frank’n Stein frozen momentOriginally uploaded by geofones. Emily came across this site today detailing some of the history of the Fiendish feet yogurt pots. These were conceived and developed by her mum, Jacqueline O’Neill, in the period 1988/89 just before she left Swindon. I’ve hung onto this promotional pot which was also developed by Jacqueline […]

fathers three are we Originally uploaded by geofones. Here I am – three generations of fathers yesterday:-From left to right….Peter, first child in1948 (Linda my first wife)Me, first child 1975 (Nick)Nick, first child 2005 (Isla)I like the height progression over the generations. big thanks to Linda for organising the day and doing the cooking!