Who should you vote for? By Nic Price on 22 April 2005 — 1 min read Your expected outcome: Liberal Democrat Your actual outcome: Lab -22 Con -53 Lib Dem 88 UKIP -3 Green 52 You should vote: Liberal Democrat The LibDems take a strong stand against tax cuts and a strong one in favour of public services: they would make long-term residential care for the elderly free across the UK,... More
High on possibility By Nic Price on 22 April 2005 — 1 min read My life is full of uncertainty at the moment. I’ve heard people describe similar situations as like standing at the edge of a precipice. But I don’t feel like that. I feel like I’m standing on my favourite beach looking out across the ocean towards the horizon – a world of possibility. Anything can happen. More
They work for you By Nic Price on 22 April 2005 — 1 min read Now that the election has been called, you can use this site to find out what your ex-MP did throughout the last parliament. We have performance stats, speeches, voting records and more… theyworkforyou.com More
Good to pub By Nic Price on 16 April 2005 — 1 min read Adaptonyms (also known as textonyms and cellodromes) are words that can be typed with the same sequence of keys on a cell phone using predictive text. For example the sequence “2-3-3” can produce “bed”, “add”, or “bee”. Source: Wikipedia Yesterday I texted a friend to let him know we’d “good to pub”. What I meant... More
Back up (and running) By Nic Price on 16 April 2005 — 1 min read My ISP (PlusNet) just had a major hiccup whilst upgrading their free web-hosting service which resulted in everyone’s files going up in smoke on Thursday morning. As a result my blog was down for the day and there was much chatter on PlusNet’s message boards. Luckily I’ve been backing up my files and data for... More
£3,800 per minute profit By Nic Price on 10 April 2005 — 1 min read That’s how much Tesco makes according to this article by James Robinson in today’s Observer newspaper. That’s not far off a quarter of a million pounds an hour, or £6million per day. Nice work if you can get it. The statistic that really startled me though is that Tesco takes £1 of every £8 we... More
Change the world for a fiver By Nic Price on 2 April 2005 — 2 mins read This week a hugely important UN-backed report, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published about how rapidly we’re destroying our planet. It’s four main findings are: Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the last 50 years than in any other period. This was done largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh... More
Design is no accident By Nic Price on 23 March 2005 — 1 min read To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. Emil Ruder Typography See entry about Emil Ruder in German Wikipedia More
The best response to abuses of openness is more openness By Nic Price on 11 March 2005 — 1 min read This from David Weinberger via Euan: Open, transparent environments are more secure and more stable than closed, opaque ones. While Internet services can be interrupted, the Internet as a global system is ultimately resilient to attacks, even sophisticated and widely distributed ones. The connectedness of the Internet – people talking with people – counters the... More
Where to put stuff By Nic Price on 9 March 2005 — 1 min read Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst’s very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, because of the tools we’ve been given to deal with our information, we’ve been encouraged to organise our information in hierarchical structures. A few years ago I built a... More