Book of the month Music of the month Bear is quiet Visuals of the month A Bankside stroll Food of the month Fresh pasta at 40 Dean Street Tech of the month Forty one years on… Bear of the month Best job EVAH!!
Author Archives: radiobeartime
All the numbers account for years
The power of paws, no sooner do I write about the lack of any national conversation about digital when we get the modestly titled “A New National Purpose” from the odd Marvel/DC team up of Tony Blair and William Hague. Martha Lane Fox has set out very well the Groundhog Day feelings of those ofContinue reading “All the numbers account for years”
As patterns seem to form
The opinion polls indicate that the next UK General Election will bring a new government. The last time we were here was back in 2008/9 when one of the hot topics was “Digital”. Shadow Ministers spoke at events about the critical importance of digital, policy papers were published by think tanks and I, a memberContinue reading “As patterns seem to form”
The fleshy aftergrass
Book of the month I tried reading a very highly praised debut novel and gave up after 30 pages. I’m not going to name it as the fault is with the reader but let’s just say that genre readers would have found it familiar and done better elsewhere. So instead two books I have yetContinue reading “The fleshy aftergrass”
February comes early
Stuck at home with pleurisy I found myself writing the February ringtone early 🙂
Hoy! Hoy!
A ringtone for January
The king of all lamps
Book of the month “As I moved with stiff legs along the reefs I slipped into the water. It was cold beyond belief – the very quintessence of deathly Arctic ice, so cold that it seemed to sear and bleach the skin.” Music of the month What could be more appropriate for the time ofContinue reading “The king of all lamps”
Roffa and the Mystery
Roffa liked her mornings to have structure. She started in the kitchen with a heaping bowl of Roffa food accompanied by pleading looks at any member of the family daft enough to try and eat their own breakfast while Roffa was hungry. Which was always. After breakfast Roffa would do a quick tour of theContinue reading “Roffa and the Mystery”
Low Cool
Computers started large and expensive so the business problems they were tasked with solving were similarly large and expensive. But most business problems and processes are small and not “worth” investing large amounts of time and money in. These problems are also usually out of management’s sight because they affect workers who are spoken atContinue reading “Low Cool”
…sway the forest like a troubled sea
Book of the month The nights draw in and the mind turns to that which lurks in the dark… Music of the month Nostalgia makes my teeth itch but this is something special. Visuals of the month The Helen Saunders exhibition at The Courtauld is fascinating. The lives and work of women in 20th centuryContinue reading “…sway the forest like a troubled sea”
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