From the Independent
Exam boards are today expected to announce a further rise in the percentage of scripts being awarded an A-grade pass – pushing it up from 25.3 per cent last year to about 26 per cent. A slight rise in the overall pass rate is expected, which would put it up to 97 per […]
I think that Dell deserve some credit for some of their work making aestetically attractive PCs. Apple make some very well designed machines, but so often with PCs, you’re limited to a beige/grey box. But I think these are quite funky and come in a range of colours. Not sure about the bamboo finish!
The […]
I was interested to read Mike Rouse’s post about the new Number 10 site and how it’s running on Wordpress.
This blog runs on Wordpress (WP), and overall, I think WP is a very good blogging platform. For starters, it’s free, open source software, is a doddle to install, has some decent admin screens and has […]
from The Guardian:
The Saturday highlights show lost out to another showing for Brendan Fraser movie The Mummy on ITV1, with 3.6 million viewers from 4.50pm, while the Sunday show was beaten by ITV1’s Heartbeat, with an audience of 6 million.
More people want to watch a 9 year old movie than the Olympics.
How about instead of […]
Let’s get one thing out of the way first. Wall*E is not a bad movie because of it’s environmental message. Yes, it’s simplistic and way off any science, and there’s quite a lot of preaching in there but there’s quite a lot of films with a bit of preaching in that are still good films.
Wall*E […]
It’s a frequent annoyance of mine that the dumb views of celebrity on scientific issues are given so much airing, so much credit to Amanda Peet (Changing Lanes, Something’s Gotta Give) for this over childhood vaccinations:-
“I’m not a doctor, which brings me to another point. It seems like the media is often giving celebrities and […]
I was going to write a piece about Michael Gove’s attack on Nuts magazine, but Mr Eugenides piece just nails it.
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