Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I will dare to tell,
But in the Lover's ear alone,
What once to me befell.

I think this is where the title of the Anita Shreve book comes from. It's one of those books where you know what's going to happen …

I read an article and was moved to write the following email:

Dear Scientific Alliance,

I read with interest your news letter entitled Phasing Out Subsidies:

http://www.scientific-alliance.org/scientific-alliance-newsletter/phasing-out-subsidies

While I agree that subsidies for renewables should be phased out, surely subsidies for all sources of energy …

Opinion seems divided on whether it's a good thing that the UK Supreme Court has ruled that pensioners don't get priority if a company goes into liquidation. I like the idea of the stakeholder pension, which sidesteps this problem.

The door of the freezer compartment of my fridge has broken, and as it's quite old I've bought a new one. Have I made a good choice? Btw, I've been getting lots of comment spam recently so I've disabled anonymous comments :-o

You can now comment on a policy in Polifesto. Here's a policy with a couple of comments. This policy, 'Citizen's Income' is also the highest rated policy, with 300 points. One of the next things to do is a notification system where you can received email notifications for new versions …

Customer service is expensive. If you want good customer service then you pay a higher price. Most people (me included) want cheap stuff, so we put up with poor customer service.

Incidentally, with a citizen's allowance, labour costs would drop and so you'd get better customer service at the same …

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/this-mugs-got-my-name-on-it
Tony, hire does your vision of free markets deal with the actual reality?

Polifesto used to use a subset of HTML5 to mark up policies. I thought that this might be a bit unforgiving for users because there'd be an error if the markup wasn't valid XML. Influenced by a blog post, I thought I'd give Creole a try. Let me know what …

Harsh, but honest! So what's your reasoning?

Utter waste of time, effort and blog post.

Well you did ask!