Opinion

Every now and then something winds me up enough, or strikes me as interesting enough, that I have to write it down. This is where those pieces live.

Posts about Opinion

• Parking Mad

  on Sun, Dec 5, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Croydon | Opinion
  I'm hardly back for a few minutes and I discover that in my absence the Croydon Parking issue has raised its ugly head again.

• Vodaphone trying to put a mast in South Croydon

  on Wed, Sep 15, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion | Croydon
  So why do Vodaphone need to put a mobile telephone mast at South Croydon Railway Station? Everyone I know gets a good signal from Vodaphone in the area.

• Brandchannel interbred

  on Thu, Sep 9, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion | Web | Standards
  Recently brandchannel.com reviewed a commercial web site that I have spent the past five years dramatically improving. The site now conforms to WAI AA standards and is fully CSS driven.

• burningcar.net spamming my site

  on Fri, Aug 13, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion | Blogging | Web
  Someone has tried to post a comment on my site that was a full html advert for some kids micro scooters - essentially a site map of burningcar(dot)net sitting inside my comments.

• Southern Electric - Broadband from your socket

  on Wed, Jul 14, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion | Tech
  Broadband through your electrical socket! Brilliant! I have been waiting for this for years. But what a terrible user experience I have just had.

• RMT on strike again

  on Tue, Jun 29, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion
  I see that Bob Crow of the RMT has resigned from the Transport for London Board. What a childish move. How is that going to help his members and the travelling public?

• Urs Meier destroys England's hopes

  on Fri, Jun 25, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion
  Those that read this column regularly will know that I'm more of a rugby fan than football but I do support England when they play big football matches - and last night we was robbed.

• Elo Elo Elo! Whats all this then?

  on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 ~ Shorticles | Opinion
  I left home early on Monday morning to go to an offsite meeting and lo and behold what do I find on my way to the railway station? A car transporter full of police cars.

• Office Cleaners

  on Tue, Dec 2, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Opinion
  Every other day when I get to work the cleaners have cleaned my desk. This is great except that they move everything on my desk to do the cleaning and don't put it back where they found it.

• Train Drivers strike actions

  on Mon, Dec 1, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Opinion
  So here we go again the Tube drivers are about to go on strike again because of fears of safety - which means more people travelling by road which has a higher death rate than the railways.

• Spam Scams

  on Thu, Aug 14, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Opinion | Web
  I have read a lot about the 419 Nigerian email scams and have received three in the past two years but this morning I received two new scam emails in my inbox.

• Right time

  on Sun, Aug 3, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Opinion
  Just been to the Red Bull Flugtag in Hyde Park - over 200,000 people according to the policeman on one of the many closed gates.

• Absolute rubbish!

  on Tue, Jul 15, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Opinion | Croydon
  Every Monday morning, early, I am woken by our two cats diving for cover under the bed. It's half past six in the morning and the dustbin men, or Domestic Waste Operatives, are outside.

• U turn as Head of parking gets towed out

  on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Croydon | Opinion
  Roger Woodward takes an early bath but is he just being thrown to the lions?