Following Cadbury’s Gorilla, Drench have gone for Brains from Thunderbirds dancing to Rhythm is a Dancer. Great advert – if only more of them were like this! The making of & other bits and pieces here.
Archive for May, 2008
Government plans database for all emails
May 20th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
What is the government thinking? The BBC and The Times are reporting that the Home Office are planning to put together a national database of all phone and email communications. It is another of the schemes proposed to combat terrorism and improve national security – but like all the others, it is just a disaster [...]
The tweets have been silenced…
May 19th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
… well, almost. I’ve removed the daily digest of twitter entries from the homepage, archive pages and RSS feed. I decided they were cluttering things up a bit too much. You can still follow my twitter messages though at twitter.com/dafyddbach or keep up with the daily digest in the ‘tweets‘ category.
Local Election Websites: Review
May 9th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the final part of a series of entries looking at websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Over the last few entries, I’ve looked at some of the websites used by county councils to provide details of the 2008 local elections. Some of these websites (mainly Monmouthshire County Council) were [...]
Local Election Websites: Cardiff Council
May 7th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
This is the third part of a series of entries covering websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Previous I evaluated websites operated by Monmouthshire County Council and the City and County of Swansea. In this entry, I will look at the site run by Cardiff Council. Cardiff Council’s local election website [...]
Local Election Websites: Swansea City Council
May 5th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the second part in a series of entries looking at local election websites run by various county councils across Wales. Previously I examined the county of Monmouthshire. In this entry, I take a look at the website run by Swansea City Council. Swansea City Council has taken a very different approach to that [...]
Local Election Websites: Monmouthshire County Council
May 3rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is part of a series of blog entries looking at local election websites run by various county council’s across Wales. In this entry I look at the live election site run by Monmouthshire County Council. MCC made use of a piece of software by Associated Knowledge Systems Ltd to show the results from each [...]
Local Election Websites
May 3rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
The latest round of local elections were held last Thursday (May 1st 2008) which resulted in huge losses for Labour, and great wins for the Conservatives. This latest set of elections was of particular importance to me, for reasons I’ll discuss at a later date. This meant I spent a large amount of time on [...]