Broad Street Ward Aldermancy
I have decided to submit a nomination form to run for Alderman of Broad Street Ward. The Wardmote is scheduled for 3 July. If there is an election, then the vote will be on 4 July – hopefully auspicious. I…
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Digital Migration
After many happy, though quiet, years running our own site using FrontPage, Mainelli.org migrates to WordPress with high hopes.
Business quotes
SIR – You began an article with the old saw “that half of all advertising budgets are wasted—the trouble is, no one knows which half” (“Change of track”, June 9th). The remark is frequently attributed by Britons to Lord Leverhulme,…
Maria und Reinhold 2012
MARIA UND REINHOLD 2012 Bei dem Flusse Wern, Vor dem duftend’n Tor, Stand ein Reinhold Reuss Und folgt er noch der Spur, So sind sie zusamm’n gekomm’n, In Pfersdorf will Maria wohn’n, Wie einst, das Reussen Paar. Wie jetzt, das…
Christmas In Flames – “Firewood”
All right, my hearing’s not the finest, so when I heard Katie Duff singing “Firework” by Katy Perry at the annual Mainelli-Duff Christmas party, I had to have a rewrite, and dedicate it to her: “Firewood” for Katie Duffy Do…
Ringing The Long Change
A visit to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in the East End of London on a cold February 2011 evening raised some fun musings on “long”. First, some background. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry casts bells, broadly of two types – big…
Literature and the Arts – Final Dinner For The “Libraries, Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery Committee”
Chairman, Past Chairman, Aldermen, Ladies & Gentlemen When John Scott asked me to address this Committee and its many supporters on behalf of the guests in honour of its Past Chairman at this farewell do, I was greatly honoured. Sidney…
Dr Aleks Krotoski Asks: Do Social Media Make The World More Boring?
Real Time Club, 23 November 2010 This event garnered a significantly higher than average attendance, just squeezing into the National Liberal Club room we had. Higher attendance meant more demanding acoustics and our guest of honour did her very best…
Why CO2 Will/Won’t Kill Us
I was intrigued with a thought about “when did CO2 atmospheric concentrations actually become directly harmful”, i.e. we’d really really have to do something about it as human beings. From here – : “Carbon Dioxide is a powerful cerebral dilator.…
The Eternal Coin: Physical Endurance or Digital Failure
On 15 June 2010, the Real Time Club evening’s proposition for discussion was that new technology will move beyond a facsimile of current exchange to new means of exchange that are better for society as a whole. Future e-money synthetic currencies…