Devon: Not As Green As It Thinks?
Devon has been advertising itself as the greenest county in Britain. Not so, says the ASA:
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Regular is the new small (The Caterer Blog)
Vox Incognita
When I started Voxing, waaaaaay back in June of last year, I decided to keep my neighbourhood, as much as possible, to people I actually knew. It was a reaction, in part, to the many other blogs I was reading at the time.
I'm starting to rue that decision.
From Dance to Cornish Piscie to malbonster I'm now, all of a sudden, finding people who are using Vox for really interesting stuff, from cartoons to recipes to photography. And some groups where interesting discussions are happening.
The question is: who am I missing? Which Voxers should I be reading? Who do you recommend to me?
Vox Hunt: Photography - Exposure
Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out.
Vox Hunt: Photography - Allow Me To Explain...
Show us a photo that requires an explanation.
This was shot for a friend's Mum, who would always ask her son to pick her up "two bottle of wine and a loaf of bread" . So we took a picture and sent it to her on a card…
Vox Hunt: Photography - Frame It
Show us one of your photos that you’d like to print out and frame.
Scenes from Sophie's Party
Enter Disco Stu
Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....
I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.com
The Simpsons Star Wars
Nicked from here.
NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excel
Fair and Balanced Videos
So, MainMor posted this:
In the interested of fair and balance blogging, I feel the need to post this:
Done.
My Tragic Addiction
[Via Adriana]
Should Employers Ban Facebook?
Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic, one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC radio last week about Facebook. Like so many internet phenomena, it's reached the level of conciousness amongst the general people that IT managers are starting to run around setting up systems to monitor usage, or even ban the site completely.
Natalie's position, like so many others, is "carefully restrict and monitor".
However, I can't help feeling that all of these decisions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what and how Facebook can be used. For me, it's as much a work tool (keeping up with contacts within this whole web 2.0/online communities shebang) as it is a personal fun tool. Yet all the discussions I'm seeing in the more mainstream media are based on the assumption that Facebook activity is purely for personal fun. And I think that's a poor assumption to make.
And even if people aren't using it for any business purpose, surely existing management policies come into play? If it's distracting people so much that they don't perform as needed, then that needs to be handled like any management issue. Just because a problem is rooted in technology, it doesn't mean it needs a technological solution, especially where people management is concerned.
My Current Favourite LoLCat
In Which I Venture to East Grinstead
The life of an Estates Gazette journalist is an isolated one. You sit in splendid, uhh, isolation in Procter Street, and only ever venture to QH for induction and training.
But since I leaped into a Sutton role, my Reed horizons have expanded immeasurably! New York! Dublin! The Strand! Rugby! and now… East Grinstead!
Yes, last Friday I ventured to one of the most remote outposts of the RBI empire, East Grinstead, for meetings with Bankers Almanac and Kellysearch.
TV Shows on iTunes UK
I wake this morning to the exciting news that iTunes has added TV shows to the UK store. Hurrah! So far, it's just a bunch of US shows, from South Park to Lost, Ugly Betty to Desperate Housewives. But really, who hasn't had the suspicion lately that the US shows are better than our own? (Doctor Who excepted, of course)
The MMOvie
One of the things I love about online games is the spin-off creativity that develops around them:
Halesworth Street Fair
We spent the early afternoon today at the Halesworth Antiques Street Fair. Here's a taste of what it's like:
Baby Pandas!
Waiting for the AA
…And watching video podcasts.
Vox Hunt: Coffee Table Book
Book: Show us a great coffee table book.
This is just a quality book. Lorna bought it for me as a present.
QotD: Passing The Drive Time
When driving alone, what do you do? Sing along to the radio? Think about your day? Something else?
Submitted by carapiccoladiva.
I listen to podcasts. I have a dock for my iPod in my car (actually, the pic shows my old one, which died about this time last year. I got a new 80Gb one from Lorna & Mum for my birthday).
I spend just under two hours in the car each weekday, so it gives me plenty of time to catch up on the latest podcasts on a while range of subjects.
Sure, sometimes I listen to music, especially if I'm pretty tired, but I do like the intellectual stimulation of talk podcasts when I'm driving the same old route for the umpteenth time.
I spend just under two hours in the car each weekday, so it gives me plenty of time to catch up on the latest podcasts on a while range of subjects.
Sure, sometimes I listen to music, especially if I'm pretty tired, but I do like the intellectual stimulation of talk podcasts when I'm driving the same old route for the umpteenth time.
The Thief of Summer
OK. Own up.
Who stole summer and left us Autumn in its place?
DVD Review: The Mother
![The Mother [2003]](http://adders.blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/6a00d8341da3af53ef013486acf7a5970c-200pi-1.jpg "The Mother [2003]")
I'm catching up on a backlog of Amazon DVD rentals in Lorna's absence, and first up was The Mother.
The heart of the movie is actually a relationship between a mother and daughter, which is strained, if not out-and-out damaged. When the father dies, the mother gets involved with the daughter's (already married) boyfriend.
There's a reek of controversy about this film. "Oh, look, an old woman having sex with a young man! Fancy that!" But somehow, it all come across as mundane. The relationships feel cold and distant, and almost brutally uninvolving.
The problem at the heart of this movie is that none of the characters are in any way likeable. Can you imagine watching a train wreck and not really caring if anyone lives or dies? That's much how I felt about the movie. Sure, the performances are great, and the cinematography often excellent, given the blandly suburban nature of much of the story, but there's something profoundly empty at the heart of the movie, that no veneer of seriousness does anything to conceal.
There's a good movie to be made about older people's sexuality, but this is not it.