http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk Still under development Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:32:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been tagged by Dave Cole with a meme. The task is to explain why your phone is your phone in exactly 139 words. For me a phone is a tool so my phone is mine simply because of what it does so I thought the best way to explain ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/06/me-and-my-mobile-phone/ It's book review time folks, and the subject of our delectation on this occasion is a book produced by Sustrans with a lovely little forward by that ever congenial bicycle riding inventor and informer of how easy it is to do self-assessment tax returns online, which incidentally it is; Adam ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/06/do-humans-dream-of-electric-cars-a-review/ That all appears to work fine then. http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/06/im-just-testing-something/ Nothing too serious but one for the 'surely that can't be right' department. Got the latest edition of 'Walsall Pride' through the door today. For those not aware, this is the council funded publication that Walsall MBC knock out to tell us how wonderful the place is with the usual array ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/04/tuesday-fun-walsall-council-and-interesting-statistics/ Another tech link I'm ashamed that I haven't gotton into before. OpenStreetMap - of which I intend to co my bit by filling in the Willenhall map. Nokia Sports Tracker. Essential for all Nokia based phones with GPS. Been having great fun tracking my walks here and there. Something from Tygerland that ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/04/links-of-the-week-2/ Actually that really should be the EU who's legislation has managed to drag an area of UK environmental practices into the 20th century* but we're dealing with the new recycling scheme we've got round these parts. Bit of background. A fortnight ago we got a new wheelie bin. One of those ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/03/congratulations-to-tory-controlled-walsall-council/ I've not been blogging so much once again and against all the other projects and real life things on the cards I've made a decision that in the absense of having the time to do some good in depth researched posts then the least I can do is do a ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/03/links-of-the-week/ A warning was issued today that over exposure to rubbish right wing journalism may have a significant detrimental effect to the human brain, particularly those in middle age. People who read publications like the Daily Mail after prolonged exposure may exhibit a number of worrying symptoms. These include the loss of ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/02/reading-the-daily-mail-may-be-harmful-to-your-brain/ I'm going to try this, I don't know if it will work but we'll give it a bash. Yours truly also happens to be heavily involved in the Co-operative Party, sister affiliated party to the Labour Party. Although not much is picked up on in the press, in recent years a ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2009/01/a-little-experiment-in-open-engagement-co-op-party-style/ (Reader advisory: this post contains 10,379 words, it's long, very long, easily two cups of tea and a kitkat long) Dear Andy, Much as I'm sure many people will sling various insults at you regarding your interview in the Telegraph regarding age classifications for website, you'll find here at Penguin Central we ... http://www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/2008/12/an-open-letter-to-andy-burnham-mp/