From The Guardian:
Rising housing costs forced more than a million householders to use a credit card to pay their mortgage or rent over the past 12 months, a poll for the housing charity Shelter reveals today.
It says a growing number of young people are turning to expensive sources of credit to hang on to a [...]

A friend reminded me of this piece recently, so I thought I’d share it with those of you who have just found dh.org. I wrote this in 2004 after seeing Scum for the first time and it struck me how much simpler “prison rules” were than “corporate rules”. It is of course tongue in [...]

Gapingvoid

I’m at the Future of Web Apps conference today, more of which later, and have just had my first “play” with an iPhone and it is niiice. Very niiice…
Much smaller than it looks in photos, it feels marvellous in the hand. The screen is awesome and the UI… the UI is completely and utterly [...]

I had a particularly yumtious blue goat’s cheese this weekend - I have no idea where they got blue goats either. Whilst polishing it off I realised that crackers, biscuits, bread, rolls etc. are in fact little more than cheese delivery devices.
Think about it for a moment. When was the last time you ate cheese [...]