Elsewhere: we resume blogging at Stable & Principled. Via Jamie Kenny, the Conspiracy’s roundup. Here’s the first comment: so this is the biggest news me the day? Not the fact that the Guardian has endorsed David Miliband?
Read More not stable, not principledCreepy google searches of the week: “who writes the blog for yorkshire ranter” and “identity of yorkshire ranter”. Someone in a BT dynamic-IP pool.
Read More dsrComing up on TYR this weekend – we review Richard Aldrich’s GCHQ…
Read More self-binding admin noticeSo, if you needed a band for a 30th birthday party…come on, or I’ll put it on craigslist….
Read More repeating the 2002-style bleg…Here’s a question for you: when you’re not reading blogs, what else do you do?
Read More 2002-style blog community bleg!To-do lists are good. Grandad Bill lived by them; we found ones up-to-date for the day before he died. In that spirit, here’s a rough one for this blog in 2010: 1) Finally, end this twin-blog nightmare. I’ve had requests from multiple readers for this. I think I’ll standardise on WordPress and host it myself…
Read More TDL@TYRBefore the blog goes quiet for the traditional Christmas ceasefire, I’d like to say that my grandfather, Paul William Gibbs, died yesterday. I’ll be posting something about him when I’ve finished writing it. Now for the quiet.
Read More going quietI’m going to America. Specifically, I’ll be organising Telco 2.0 Americas in Orlando on the 9th and 10th of December. Then, I’ve got a two-and-a-half day layover in a hotel with marching ducks. The prose is worth quoting: In a special elevator, the five North American mallard ducks, four hens and one drake, comprising The…
Read More submarine, cocktail party, etcThe blog is going to call in Amsterdam this week. I’m going to be attending eComm, the less tiresome telecoms conference. Readers there are welcome to meet up; I’d also be interested in recommendations of anything, really, as I haven’t been there since 1996, and using the various hangouts referenced in Charlie Stross novels as…
Read More the problem with a submarine is that there’s nowhere to have a decent cocktail partyThere’s going to be a meetup at the Sir Richard Steeles on either Tuesday or Wednesday evening (it looks like at the moment). Readers are invited. Feedback on the time and date is appreciated. Update: Looks like we’ll go with Wednesday.
Read More Six years of TYR