Windows Update is installing IE8 and Office 2007 SP2

Turns out new cat has toxoplasmosis. I'm living in a small flat with 2 cats, 2 small kids & 2 adults. And you're worried about Swine Flu

Not only is the email insecure, but they must have posted my password up to their server in plain text too #security101

I've registered with 2 sites this week that emailed my password back to me in plain text #security101

It's like they're operating some sort of moving-block system when they haven't even got solid-state interlocking yet #thomasthetankengine

If I was the Fat Controller I'd be seriously worried about a public inquiry.

Thomas the Tank Engine's line has an appalling safety record.

l:home

is going to CC all his emails to Jacqui Smith http://ping.fm/xX8UV

Since announcing the prize for my 100th follower I have lost 2 followers

wonders why "verb" is a noun

On behalf of James Burton, who doesn't do social media, I declare a MOP on Wednesday 12th May. Venue tba. #MOP

Gordon Brown is here to stay. Like Internet Explorer.

Today I saw a piece of music for 6 ice-cream vans being performed. With free ice-cream.

New book on the creative and cultural economy After The Crunch http://ping.fm/OXD74 (edited by a friend) Free to read online.

Auto-tune the news for great justice: http://ping.fm/1ln6y

has changed tack

...and its so much harder getting the straw in

Surely a 3 litre wine box should last longer than a bottle?

Latest xkcd uses a Two's Complement 8-bit signed integer http://xkcd.com/571/

My new favourite cake is Battenburg Fancies from Lidl

I can't possibly let my children eat all the chocolate they were given at Easter. So I'm doing it for them. Good Dad.

Mac people: don't let your guard down. The datapocalypse is coming! http://ping.fm/tJxHz

Pleased for Andy Flower http://ping.fm/7MHiF a man of principle as I said in January http://ping.fm/DzHyR

That Firefox add-on: http://ping.fm/FFnOu

Firefox add-on where you can replace the word crisis for opportunity on all websites, so you can start seeing things from the optimistic side: http://ping.fm/FFnOu

Possibly some might argue that Agile is not quite the same as Muddling Through

Nice piece by John Kay on the success of Agile methods in business strategy (citing a 1959 source - year zero for Agile?) http://ping.fm/adMDb

If Afghanistan beat Scotland tomorrow they deserve a chance to complete the Grand Slam at Sofia Gardens http://ping.fm/EzWJm

Why it's your civic duty to photograph police officers http://ping.fm/3mJfT

When I woke up this morning I realised that gravity was a rotational effect, a 4D centripetal force. Turns out I'm not the first to have this insight http://ping.fm/3Ez7f