Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

Further SMS hacking, added a command line script, now available at aasms 0.2.

How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking

(Yes, I know I keep going on about this every 5 minutes to anyone who'll stand still long enough)

Hacking a bit on some Python code to talk to A&A's SMS service.

Doesn't really do much yet, but put up a github repo to play with at http://github.com/mstevens/aasms.

After many years of membership, first of Amicus, then of Unite, I've now left and am no longer a union member.

I like the idea of union membership to some degree, but I thought, amongst other things, the phone call telling me to vote for Gordon Brown was the last straw.