You know how sometimes there’s a big breaking story that makes international news, because it somehow ‘fits’ the story the media are selling that day, despite how it’s not really that newsworthy. This one, for example: Police in Belgium are investigating a complaint from a teenager who says a tattooist peppered her face with stars [...]

For this, and for most of the remainder of these sessions, while I took quite a lot of notes, I was generally concentrating on what was being said, rather than who was doing the saying. Where possible, I will indicate who led an individual session, so that you might know where this all originated from. [...]

Now when I’m on the train, I don’t tend to take various sorts of electrical equipment with me. I might have a laptop, I might have a mobile phone. I might have the relevant power cables and/or chargers. If I’m on a train, and they provide a plug socket, I might plug the things in [...]

Having not been to one of these ‘camp’ jobbies before, I didn’t really know what to expect. On that basis, I had been planning to kind of slink into the background and fade into the wallpaper, also obviously that would be difficult for someone as beautiful as me, if it wasn’t for the fact that [...]

So, Wimbledon approacheth, and with it the inevitable speculation about how well the latest Great British hope will do in the event. For a good number of years, the hope was pinned on the seemingly perennial quarter-finalist, Tim Henman. Tim is frequently dismissed as ‘not good enough’. This is a bit unfair. Tim managed — [...]

…is this a good idea? From the title, you’d probably assume no, but allow me to lead you down this road for a few minutes. Is it okay to deliberately put kids at risk where we have assessed the risk as low, and even if the risk does occur, it’s extremely unlikely to cause serious [...]

There have been discussions on Accessify Forum as to what sort of icon should be used to represent accessibility, or accessibility-related topics. There is an international symbol of accessibility, which is basically a stylised white wheelchair on a blue background. This has various advantages and disadvantages. Firstly, it’s very clear. Everyone who sees it will [...]

Zimbabwe Iran. No it fucking isn’t. I’ve heard this line from the archetypal ‘man in the pub’ before. It started last year when Mugabe and his thugs rigged the election in Zimbabwe by brutalising those who might be prepared to vote against him. That was when I first heard it. Generally from some relatively well-off [...]

The “kids” got Mario Kart for the Wii for Christmas. It’s the game where you plug the Wiimote into a driving wheel, and basically drive around with that. It’s also bloody good fun. If you have a Wii, and I had to recommend one game, this is the game I would choose (although I also [...]

Michael Owen, scorer of 200 goals (160 club, 40 country), tormentor of Argentina in the 1998 world cup, signed by Newcastle United only 4 years ago, finds that his stock has fallen somewhat. A man for whom Newcastle paid £17 million four years ago, who Real Madrid signed the year before that — when he [...]