Archive for 2011

August 2011

Worst Petition Ever

Oh lordy. Old chestnuts galore.

Le Jour de France 2011: The Ride

200 miles and a 5-hour ferry trip in 24 hours? Yeah, went ok actually…

July 2011

How to Give Less and Take More

In which I have a big problem with charity bike rides that are subsidised jollies. Or, in this case, double-subsidised jollies.

Aggressive Drivers in Denial

Oh look. People are publishing propaganda to try and justify drivers being able to just plough on and ignore everone else on the roads.

June 2011

Le Jour de France 2011

Let’s get to the point: I want your cash.

Fixing the HTC Desire’s Biggest Flaw

If you have an HTC Desire, you probably keep running out of internal storage space. But it’s probably fixable. Here’s how.

May 2011

AV: Let’s Dispel Some Myths

The ‘No’ campaign say that AV hands power to racists. The opposite is true.

April 2011

Death by Dangerous Society

A cyclist is struck and fatally injured by not one, not two, but three cars on an open road. What can we learn from this?

March 2011

The London Cycling Microcosm

As another fashionable anti-cycling diatribe rolls in, is it time to do something?

Notes From The Bez Adventure

A blast from the past: snippets from a notebook.

February 2011

Ubuntu 10.10 on a Samsung N220

Ubuntu works pretty well on the N220, but it took a couple of evenings of trying various processes before finding one that got everything working smoothly. Want Ubuntu on your N220 with minimum fuss? Here’s how.