This is brilliant. Found it here on Flickr, unfortunately I don’t know who to give credit too...

I made chutney today for the first time ever, using green tomatoes, onions, brown sugar, paprika, currants and some other great ingredients. It’s delicious now, but we’re going to save a jar for Yule, by which time it will have matured and be even tastier! I also pickled a big jar of shallots—again, first time [...]...

US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin claims she struggles to pay bills, describing herself as “an everyday, working-class American” who knows how it feels when the stock market takes a hit. The Palin family income reached six figures in her 2007 declaration, capitalising on salmon fishing rights and property deals. Her governor’s salary brought in $125,000 [...]...

As I read this story and felt my heart break, I had to wonder, what kind of experiences led the child to do unspeakable evil? Sexual abuse? Criminal neglect? Torture? Never mind just suing the parents—call in social services immediately, to investigate the child’s family and background, and hopefully set him on a different path [...]...

I can’t wait to see what the bees come up with for the Halloween activity — it’s always the best part of...

I’ve been given the contact details for a neurologist specialising in the study of Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS), based at the York Balance Centre. It’s some way from where I live, further than my usual NHS catchment area, but apparently I can still ask my GP to send me to see him as there’s [...]...

NetNewsWire iPhone Application is Very Popular: NewsGator Widget Blog Shows the power of the widget - in the right circumstances tags: netnewswire, widgets Sponsored By: FreeAgent Central - complete money management for UK...

Time Machine, the backup utility that comes bundled with Mac OS X, really came in handy today when I noticed that lots and lots of music files had vanished without trace from iTunes on the iMac. Some TV shows had gone, and almost the entire discography of Goldfrapp, and probably lots of other stuff I [...]...

Send away your iMac with just short of $1000, and you can get it coated in 24-carat gold. I found this site over the weekend by accident when researching skins (or covers, made from silicon or vinyl) for Apple’s notoriously sensitive-to-scratching hardware items such as the iPod and iPhone. But blimey. The iMac has always [...]...

The Soil Association is calling on the UK government to ban pesticides implicated in the killing of honeybees. The pesticides under suspicion have already been banned in four other European countries. Of course anybody with a brain not motivated by greed and naked commercial interests knows that pesticides cannot act in accordance with the perceptual [...]...

“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay,” said Lenin. Who’s Lenin? Oh, just some guy who talked a fair bit of sense for much of his life about economies, greed and wealth distribution. You can be certain our capitalist leaders today are set on making us [...]...

Sage Intelligent Reporting laid to rest - 26 Sep 2008 “We’ve become aware of some compatibility issues between Sage 50 Intelligent Reporting and other software,” Ford wrote. “As it’s just not practical for us to solve these issues or develop the software further in its current form, we’ve taken the difficult decision to withdraw Sage 50 Intelligent Reporting from sale from 24 September 2008 and to halt development of the new version of this software.” tags: sage The Ponderings of Woodrow: The Necessity of Blame Aaaah yes - the blame game. So predictable. tags: wallst Business Two Zero » Blog Archive » Switch to iPhone or go for BlackBerry Bold? Cool new Blackberry workout from David Terrar. tags: blackberry Al Qaeda, FAS 157, and the...

Over here. I’m starting to wonder if it’s just one person / group stealing it all, and slowly accumulating data on the whole of the UK. That’d be scary...

The Engaging Brand : Creating a Better Understanding of Social Change Wow - talk about make something fit your agenda. This is so epistomologically incorrect. Also, choice doesn’t create alternatives, ti’s the other way around. Read and enjoy the latest half baked crap from someone else who needs GPS to find the bathroom tags: theory Finextra: Barclaycard fined for silent calling £50K fine - is that it? Who dreamt up the rules for this kind of thing. tags: barclaycard US dollar will be worth less than toilet paper • VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control This guy comes across as barking mad but there’s a lot of truth in what he says. tags: wallst Sponsored By: EditGrid - collaborative online...

BBC NEWS | Europe | French hold out against credit crunch Did the French get it right? Their thrift is well known as is their sluggish economy. But no-one’s going to be in real trouble over this. The US/UK fallout has yet to be fully realized. tags: creditcrunch FT.com / Companies / Basic industries - Experience shows experience counts “As the UK economy spirals downward, there is mounting concern that many of the nation’s largest companies are being led by people who have no experience of steering businesses through hard times.” - now that IS worrying tags: recession SEC Wins Major Hedge Fund Fraud Case Against Michael Lauer, Head of Lancer Management Group (Press Release No. 2008-225; September 24, 2008 “The SEC is seeking a financial penalty and...

I had this in my head for the last few days. This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. Leonard Cohen and Judy Collins, recorded in 1976. Melancholy is my middle name. If your browser won’t let you watch the video, goto YouTube and watch it there....

First we had the Jesus Phone otherwise known as the iPhone, and now we’re seeing the Google phone dubbed the Satan Phone. It doesn’t come in red, though, as far as anyone can tell and if it’s hot to the touch, you’ll no doubt want to take it back to the shop. It’s also ugly [...]...

BBC iPlayer now offers iPhone users access to a seven-day archive of radio shows over a wi-fi connection only. O2’s contract includes a ‘no streaming’ rule to prevent customers from making good use of 3G as, when, and if they can ever get a 3G connection. If, like me, you rarely see the 3G symbol [...]...

Only us Brits could produce something as outrageously funny as this take on Sarah Palin....

This commentary on the recent HBOS/Lloyds TSB merger is hilarious. Check it out!...

Fed plows $30 billion in money markets overseas: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance Soring up the offshorers tags: wallst The Ponderings of Woodrow: Can Buffett do what Paulson and Bernanke couldn’t? Jason is a must read. He’s also a good pal. An excellent thought piece. tags: wallst...

The FIA have thrown out Hamilton and Mclaren’s appeal against the 25 second penalty which lost him the best race of the season and probably the last few years. Article 152 of the International Sporting Code states that drive-through penalties are “not susceptible to appeal”. © somefoolwitha.com...

JK Rowling has donated a million pounds to the Labour Party, attacking Conservative plans to give tax incentives to couples who are married irrespective of whether they have kids or not. Rowling was a single parent struggling under the last Tory administration, not only on benefits but also under the near-constant attacks the Tories made [...]...

UFO Response Team on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Only in America tags: ufo re: The Auditors: Hello? Big 4? Are You Out There? So the real question: any impact on the Big 4? I hope so but somehow doubt it - at least in the short term. tags: auditors, big4 What’s Behind the Financial Market Crisis? - Antony Mueller - Mises Institute A solid technical analysis of the current financial crisis in the US. tags: financial crisis...

New web editing suite Espresso from MacRabbit who also brought you the fantastic CSSEDIT looks pretty good so far. I’d love to get a beta go on this. © somefoolwitha.com...

Hmm - as I logged into my Wordpress dashboard I discovered I’ve published 2,500 posts in the last three years. Although mathemetically that would indicate something over 2 posts per day, when you factor in weekends and the odd non-working week it creeps up to something around four posts per day. In recent times that has dropped off somewhat as I’ve been wrestling with more projects and the now almost routine travel schedule. Even so, when taken in the round, that’s a heck of a lot of writing, surpassed only by the 5,000+ comments I’ve received over the years that haven’t been spam. (Spam counts for a gobsmaking 18,000 comments) So thank you all for reading stuff on this wee corner of the Internet. The ride’s been pretty good so far. Long may it...

FT.com / Columnists / John Gapper - This greed was beyond irresponsible Another view of what’s happening in the US markets. It doesn’t make for pretty reading but the title says it all. tags: greed, WallSt Diaroogle.com - The Premier Toilet Search Engine One for the humour department. Courtesy of Marilyn Pratt. tags: diaroogle.com, diaroogle Tax Research UK / Will we get country by country reporting? Congratulations to Richard in advancing the case for country by country reporting. It is sorely needed as part of the battle to destroy corrupt practices. tags: tax, taxavoidance BBC NEWS | UK | Bosses urge climate change action The Prince of Wales’s UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change said “deep and rapid” cuts were needed in CO2 to prevent...

10 ways to… start a business on a budget - 10 Sep 2008 Surprisingly sane advice in BusinessManagement zone. But there’s a lot more to it than that. Twitter gets a mention - insteresting. tags: startup...

Late July on the journey from Stavanger to Kristiansand the rose bay willow herb was growing and waving with unrestrained joy. After Kristiansand the roads along the south coast were decorated with great swathes of colour. It creeps down the hillsides and forms itself into violet margins along the strips of tarmac. Each plant is intensely competitive and sacrifices individual bulk for the advantages of height. But when collected together they tend to allow their colour to leak into the spaces between them, forming a mass of pigment which collects and reflects the light. It is strange to see that the brief lives of these petals have blown and ended by the time we make our return journey the following...

I won my appeal for Disability Living Allowance, I found out today. It’s somewhat ironic given that I encountered a completely disbelieving consultant last week who wanted to send me to see a shrink—and on that matter, I’ve decided to complain initially to my GP about how the visit went, and tell him I either [...]...