Archive for March, 2006

Tube map troubles in Time Out

28Mar06

Geoff has found a friend in Time Out magazine this week who published the following story about his legal hassles with Transport for London. If you’re not familiar with the story, see previously. The Register also posted a followup with the desperately spineless Claranet who were incapable of discerning barratry from genuine legal complaint in [...]

Unexpected downtime

28Mar06

After a couple of idle months, within a week of really getting into writing on this blog it fell off of the net. I wrote about it here with not inconsiderable venom. I’m very happy to say that it’s back up and running virtually identical to its previous incarnation. Believe it or not, I still [...]

VEXER, MS Paint for the insane

15Mar06

VEXER is a graphics editing tool unlike any you’ve ever used. Far from being the product of a carefully thought out plan, VEXER has come into being through a bizarre process of evolution directed by the utterly broken-down brain of Kelbv. Whilst he will almost certainly spend the later years of his life wandering through [...]

Remove London tube map parodies, or else!

11Mar06

Geoff’s a guy I worked with at the BBC during my short stint working for BBC News Online. Others know him best because he holds the world record for visiting all the London Underground’s stations in the shortest possible time. He’s since attempted to beat the record with others for charity including colleagues at my [...]