I’ve long had a deep suspicion of high profile architects, all the more so if they’ve got a knighthood. My prejudices were confirmed again today, in an interview with the man who’s overseeing the government’s city academies project: “The whole building side has been a nightmare,” he admits. “Most of the 27 already open are [...]

Sunday was spent at Newham’s Big Sunday event — an exhibition at Excel — sorry, I mean ExCeL — promoting the borough and its part in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Actually it was similar to most other exhibitions you’d expect to find at Excel, but with rather more space than usual and rather fewer [...]

I found this story unexpectedly sad today: A father of four who committed suicide complained he had been bullied at work, an inquest heard yesterday. Anthony McDermott, 50, killed himself last July after he believed he was ridiculed at the Salford-based metal detector manufacturing company, Mettler-Toledo Safeline, where he worked. The story is told that [...]

For a while I’ve been worried about being able to get all my photos back off Flickr (and securely onto a DVD which I can safely lose, snap or keep in a box that my grandchildren will open in 50 years time to discover a circle of dust). I know I can write a program [...]

I was delighted today to come across the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. I think it was probably created by Henry VIII, after he successfully released a 4-bit version of Greensleeves. Tags: guilds, technology