Mini-Rant

Is it just me or does Version 2.0 of WordPress suffer from feature creep? Maybe I’m just an HTML purist in my old age, but I’m really not getting on with its new post editing page! Back to the grindstone…

Selling Ming Short Part II

As expected, the “bridge to the future” slogan is pretty much the one thing that most media outlets have reported from Ming Campbell’s launch yesterday. Nick Clegg repeats it in his Guardian article today as well. As I said earlier, this really does sap my enthusiasm for Ming as leader. No other candidate is being… Continue reading Selling Ming Short Part II

Bottlenose confusion

Regular readers of this blog may be a little confused. To clarify: bottlenose dolphins are only distantly related to bottlenose whales (such as this fellah). While both are of course cetaceans, the former are members of the delphinidae family, while the latter are ziphidae. Frankly, I don’t know why they aren’t called false bottlenose dolphins.