Lulu publishing

The revolution in publishing has arrived. Lulu allows you to publish your own works and keep control of them. It’s possible to publish with no set-up fees or minimum order. Set your own level of royalties, and receive 80% of the profits. Listen to BBC radio4 coverage of the story from their `Today’ programme. Thanks [...]

My pants are like a shield of Steel.

Moscow’s Steel Research Institute have designed steel shorts for added protection. Seven steel plates are used to stop a bullet fired from an Uzi fired from five metres away. (Presumably this is the institute: Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys ). See more strange objects in the book from Taschen: 1000 extra/ordinary objects It’s [...]

Amazing sweets.

This week I made an amazing discovery. Vimto Chews. It’s so long since I had Vimto but these sweets taste like a whole glass of vimto in each sweet!

Wembley Stadium

Work at Wembley stadium stopped today and all the staff were sent home after the failure of a steel beam during welding. The day before a visit to celebrate 40 years since the World Cup final. The rafter in the roof is 50-tonnes and dropped about 1 metre. The project is behind schedule and the [...]

Hello world!

Hello again world. I have moved here because there was no way I could see to make a blog at blogspot to have valid html. Technical details. Atleast here the default theme does validate, although the one other theme I tried did not.