Oh yes! Spitfire memorial

Cop this. Planned memorial to RJ Mitchell and the Spitfire for Southampton.

A funding campaign for £2m starts this summer and a quick google didn't find a website for the organisers (yet), but I certainly want to to be part of this.

Wonder if they'll get James May involved...

Britain's shortest cycle lane

Nice one Cardiff Council, glad to see taxpayers' money being put to good use. "Somewhere safe to stop before turning". Yeah, right.

#ICM Market Research #FAIL #TPS

Dear ICM,

I am registered with the telephone preference service. This means I do not want to have calls at any time of the day or night from people who I have not given my number to, and from whom I do not wish to receive calls.
So when your market survey caller protests that you are not covered by the TPS, and talks over my protestations that I do not want calls like this, he is not likely to get any co-operation from me.

Having made it damn clear I do not want such a call, he then asks me if he can ask me some market survey questions. To which my response is, "why do you think I registered with the TPS?"

At this point your caller finally gets the message that his call is not welcome. About 2 minutes too late.

This obviously does not even take into account the fact I'm ex-directory.

GET THE MESSAGE?

I was going to do a #Microsoft #Apple #iPhone #WP7S joke...

for April fool and had planned a full pseudo Microsoft Press Release with images of a 3GS with the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 applications running on it. I'd even mentioned the idea to 2 leading Microsoft tech journalists earlier this week, and it raised a laugh! So I thought I was onto a good thing :-)

My plan was to "grab" the Microsoft page as if I'd seen it, tweak the URL displayed and show a PDF image of it and everything. I also wanted to speculate on it being a Microsoft April Fool pulled at the last minute by legal. I thought it was going to be quite a wheeze.

But I think I might have been closer to the truth than I imagined, because I'm not going to be able to do it.

I hope to explain more later...