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According to the Times the BBC is bowing to complaints over its £1 million new weather forecast. Viewers will see more of the North of England and Scotland in a “change of perspective” after they said that the South of England had been given too much prominence. The aerial view will be “straightened” to give the impression of equal representation to points north of Birmingham.This is a start but there are other issues that need sorting out as well. One of these is the way that they portray South Wales. Cardiff has been emblazoned across the whole of South Wales, ...

I am back from Brussels full of useless facts from the in-flight magazine. My favourite was the one about the @ symbol. This has grown in usage in recent years due to the development of the internet. Swansea Council even has projects called Service @ Swansea and Top Performance @ Swansea. Now the @ symbol has its own morse code designation. It is dot-dash-dash-dot-dash-dot. This is the only addition to morse code since the First World War.

This post has been done for one of three reasons. Firstly I've been working on a way to upload my pictures from my mobile, direct to my blog. I've now got something working via Opera, which takes a GIF, JPEG or PNG and re-sizes it to either 200 or 430 pixels wide for me, stores it in the image directory, and renames the file for me. So the picture was a test. The reason for picking the picture was

First thing this morning police sirens outside - first thought, god what's happening now. Great van outside and 2 burley policemen knocking on the two doors directly across the road - Camden side. Saw them go in and didn't give it another thought. Out to buy my cigs 2 hours later (I know it's a bad habit but......... ) - they emerged with a pretty young lady in hand-cuffs. They put her into the van then oblivious to the people around proceeded to shout via radio to an inspector who was presumably at the station - everybody could hear what ...

according to a Saudi advisor, denying reports of security clampdown following King Fahd going into hospital.All right-thinking neocons and supporters of the Blair government will be delighted everything is 'normal': that women still can't drive or vote, and that the theological police will still be able to drive girls back into a blazing school because they were not properly clad to appear on the streets. Or live. Still, they've got lots of our oil under their sand. So they can do what they want, and our governments will still bend the knee and kiss their collective backsides. ...

A good article by Richard Dawkins, pugnacious Professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University.