I thought I'd send a letter to Boris Johnson putting forward the idea of introducing electric taxis in London. Read More...

Tags: london, environment, transport

I've joined C.N.D, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. I'm not an impulsive type (I bought a new bicycle frame last week after two years of searching around and weighing up the pro's and cons) and joining CND has also taken years of thought. Read More...

Tags: cnd

Last week, for the first time in my entire adult life, myself and the rest of the people of the UK got the chance to chance their electoral voting system. The change available to us wasn't exactly earth shattering; we were able to choose between the current system (first past the post - you put an 'x' beside your chosen candidate and the one with the most votes gets a seat in Parliament) and AV (you get to rank your choices on the voting slip). AV wasn't much of an alternative. There are better voting methods out there like Single Transferrable Vote or STV but that was what we got.

And then two thirds of us (or at least the half of voters who actually turned up) said 'no' to AV. WHAATTTT????? Read More...

Tags: voting, video shop, opinion, science, the brain

A fun invitation dropped into my email inbox yesterday. It was from Adobe and they wanted people to submit a new design for their ‘Creative Juices’ logo. I love making logos and the winner is supposed to get a free copy of an Adobe Product of their choice so it was doubly enticing.

I fiddled away on my vector art program (I’m still using LineForm even though it’s going nowhere as a product. It’s really easy to use and very effective) and I came up with the logo displayed. My aim was to keep the logo as simple as possible while, at the same time, being evocative and a little bit humorous.

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Tags: facebook, art

About a year ago, I wanted a travel guitar to take with me on holiday and to music festivals. I had had a brief look the previous summer when I’d been to a music festival. There were several choices available; a Taylor Big Baby, an Ozark travel guitar and a Cort Earth-Mini. I tried them all.

The Ozark travel guitar was certainly very portable but it looked like a piece of equipment from an extinct outdoor sport. I wasn’t sure whether to play it or find an old feathery rubber ball to hit with it. Unfortunately, the sound wasn’t brilliant either. Since the Ozark has no sizeable resonating chamber, the instrument isn’t much different from playing a guitar that’s been sliced in half. Read More...

Tags: cort, guitar, music, morals, consumerism