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It is Christmas and so clearly time for the local council to consider a policy of ‘zero tolerance’ towards the homeless in the city. I confess I am unclear as to what this policy actually entails other than kicking them out of the local shopping centre car park in the evenings. Perhaps if I read all about it in The Hampshire Chronicle I will be better informed.
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Some sounds for a sad day. This drawing was made in 2004 during a visit to South Africa organised by the British Council and during which I exchanged learning experiences with a cartoonist from over there. My hat remains tipped to Steve Bell who facilitated for the participating Brits and Zapiro (aka Jonathan Shapiro) who returned the favour for the South Africans.
Updated: 12th December 2013 Zapiro has offered some thoughts about Mandela and his understanding of the big picture to the BBC.
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Plans are afoot for a restructuring of north and central Winchester around the railway station. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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Chancellor George Osborne’s growth is born of more private borrowing.
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The annual festive market and ice rink has opened courtesy of the cathedral and the Church of England. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
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The massive organisational restructuring undertaken by former Minister for Health, Andrew Lansley, after the last election is now starting to have practical effects on the services provided by the National Health Service. Read all about the likely changes to provision of maternity services in the Hampshire Chronicle.
The art of web science © Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons
I’ve gone back to education by enrolling in an entirely online course at one of my local universities – The University of Southampton.
Edited: 15th November 2013. Some questions about use of the worldwide web.
It is a key tool for my work. I use it for research, discovery and for confirming information from other sources, which are often anecdotal knowledge from conversation.
See immediately above.
I do, typically using the micro blogging service Twitter or in closed forums in organisations to which I belong.
At times yes, although in recent times I have found it increasingly efficient to find the actual experts in the subjects in which I am interested. You could characterise this as going direct to the source of the information.
I imagine it as some sort of organic structure like a circulatory system or plant roots and branches.
All three although I’d reorder the priority of order in the question above.
If I had to choose, a user but I don’t think the distinction is particularly valuable.
I’m wary of labels such as typical and especially in a developing human communication system. Again, if pushed, I’d say I was a persistent or even heavy user of the technology. I am sure that my ability to access the web is highly dependent upon my age, lifestsyle, class, nationality and professional status.
Please return to the top of this post. Thanks for reading!
After that you might like to watch this video about the pre-history of the web by Les Carr.
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Nigel Farage, current leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party is to become a columnist on The Independent newspaper and website.
Updated: 14th May 2015 – Despite the impressive number of votes gathered by UKIP in the General Election of 2015, there are signs of serious strain at the top of the party.
Updated: 30th July 2015 – It remains to be seen what the future holds for the promotion of Mr Farage ahead of the referendum of UK membership of the European Union which is scheduled for June 2016.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s film Gravity is a smash at the Box Office and provides a handy vehicle for the a pop at the Coalition government’s success in extracting the UK from the economic wreckage left by the banks.
By the way, the film is terrific, visceral stuff.
© Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons for Hampshire Chronicle
Sometimes when you have to travel for work, you can get asked to fulfill an urgent deadline and last week was one of those times.
I had little time to supply and not much in the way of kit so I had to improvise by drawing, photographing and editing a drawing on a mobile telephone. You can see it above. If you look carefully a the image you’ll see the pencil construction lines under the joke.
The story was a sad one about the anticipated redundancies at Hampshire County Council, the week after the great St Jude’s storm warning. Read all about it in the Hampshire Chronicle.
