Cars were once useful. But now there's just so many of them, that they get in the way of each other. And our way also. And the environment... Once a key to the future, the car is now a menace to it. Freedom has given way to gridlock, pleasure to road rage. Even the best - fastest - car journeys are a guilt trip, now we've learned what carbon ... Read full entry

For sheer stupidity, this has to top talking on a mobile phone (sans hands free kit), or sending text messages, while driving a car in peak-hour commuter traffic: reading a book. Yep, while driving a car. That's exactly what I saw when travelling into the city for a meeting earlier this morning. Must have been a great book. "Page turning suspense, I just couldn't put it down..."

Since spam bots can't read, this post is pretty much pointless, but give me any excuse to underline the fact I've on the web for over ten years now, and there's no stopping me. In the old days, and I am referring to the days of the dot com boom, requests for link exchanges were usually composed by a human, and also included an actual and tangible incentive to consider such ... Read full entry