My dad's on holiday in Cyprus and in a postcard he mentioned he visited Mount Olympus, and said that Gilbert, my grandad on my mum's side, had his office there. That must have been when he was in charge of the generators at the British Army base. As Gilbert died …

I've said to West Wilts District Council:

Almost every time I take our cardboard to the recycling point (the one by Trowbridge College), the container is overflowing. This must mean that cardboard has such a low value that the District Council has to pay someone to remove it. On the …

nice to see i'm not the only one fighting against tony's determination to free the world's trade!

free trade is a good idea(l) but impossible to achieve and - like communism - not neccessarily a good idea to attempt.

corporations act in their own best interest and governments (are supposed to …

one of the most memorable parts of eating at the Fat Duck was a red cabbage gazpacho with a spoon of mustard ice cream in the middle. not quite sure what the difference between 'cabbage water' and 'cabbage gazpacho' is, but having tried both i can definitely tell you that …

Thanks for your comment Miguel!

You say that a carbon tax isn't going to happen soon enough. Why? Implementing a CO2 tax is much easier and therefore quicker than with a FIT. The points where fossil fuels enter the country are few, which makes taxation easy, and there is no …

FITs are by far the best solution we have for switching to a clean energy system. Having researched this for two years I have found that, every study, every expert, shows this. A carbon tax is not going to happen soon enough to make a difference in the short term …

I'm a member of Greenpeace. Have been since my teens. They've just sent me an email on energy policy in which they say call for a Feed-in Tariff (FIT). Bad idea, and here's why.

The problem we've got is the emission of greenhouse gases. Therefore we should make it more …

Own-Id was down from 2008-01-18 15:16 GMT to 2008-01-19 12:47 GMT. Sorry to everyone for this outage. The reason was that the Java VM ran out of memory. This means that Own-Id probably has a memory leak.

One of the problems was that it took a long time …

The issue of ROC retirement is an interesting one. Most 'green' packages are not green at all - if all ROCs are sold on then users of these packages are actually subsidising the electricity price of non-green tariffs by paying over the odds for the mandatory renewable part. As far as …

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of those films you know a lot about before seeing it. Some would say, 'it carries a weight of expectation'. Well, one thing I can certainly say is that afterwards you really feel you've seen a *proper* film. I expect that Lawrence of Arabia …