Working on my novel

I’ve been inspired by Mr Matt Cutts to join in with him on one of his 30-day challenges. I’ve signed up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and over the next 30 days, I hope to complete at least 50,000 words of a humour piece tentatively titled “I am Hercules”. Today is day one and [...]

BBC’s Response to Doctor Who Ad Complaint

I’ve just received a response from the BBC’s complaints department: Thank you for your e-mail. The ‘Over the Rainbow’ trail in ‘Doctor Who’ should not have played out on Saturday and we apologise to all ‘Doctor Who’ fans whose enjoyment of the show was disrupted. We recognise the strength of feeling that has been expressed [...]

Confessions of a Copyright Pirate

Hello. My name is Katy Bairstow, and I use peer-to-peer file sharing. There. I said it, and I suspect that anyone who follows me on Twitter will hardly be surprised by the fact. I’ve been talking a lot about the Digital Economy Act lately, the way in which it became law, the lack of scrutiny [...]

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