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- The stationary city
I'm pretty sure that if Londoners were ever to explode into violent anarchy it would be because the transport infrastructure had come to a halt. When everything's running smoothly tempers already flare at the traffic jams and crowded tubes. But it just takes one or two more things to go wrong to bring the city close to utter gridlock.
In Personal on 31 January 2003. 2 comments. Permalink
- How many Americans own passports?
One of the reasons America is sometimes described as being an insular country is the low ownership or passports, and thus the low rate of international travel. Which in some ways is fair enough; in comparison to Europeans, for example, popping over to another country is often a bigger deal than jumping on a train. But Ted read that only 7 per cent of Americans own passports and wondered where the figure comes from. It seems the statistic varies, for example:
In Misc on 31 January 2003. 446 comments. Permalink
- Byliner is reborn
Byliner, my site that lets you keep track of when (some of) your favourite writers publish new articles, has been completely rewritten and is now in a position to get some new features (more on that here).
I'd appreciate any comments, especially if you notice something that's broken. I haven't had a chance to test it on Windows browsers yet but hopefully it's not too bad; I'll fix PC compatibility next week. I managed to rewrite all the PHP, HTML and CSS in a couple of weeks, thanks to having the existing logic and SQL to work from and the set of PHP classes on which I now base all my sites. Even so, it's been pretty hectic.
It's pretty safe to say that what with this and Pepys' Diary I've been more productive in the past six weeks of my free time than I have in the past six months at work. But then that's not much of a challenge.
In Byliner on 31 January 2003. 3 comments. Permalink