At last dreams are coming true! The Big Boys are joining in the fun. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk is becoming Fairly Traded:

100 years ago William Cadbury chose beans from Ghana. A year ago we founded…

Apologies to my readers who are less than interested with tech and code related posts. I’m plotting a way to separate my posts, so that you won’t be subjected to this much longer. Thanks for your…

Until yesterday I felt that the biggest weakness in using ExpressionEngine as a Content Management System was its roundabout way of handling image and file uploads. For my less tech-savvy…

Is your lack of fancy camera equipment — you know, the $3000 21-megapixel DSLR with HD video and f/1.4 lens — holding you back from making good photographs? Maybe the problem is with your thinking.

A Global Report on Trafficking in Persons was released on the 12th February. It shows that many countries are in denial about the issue, and that without better information sharing there will be…

I found this lovely quote this morning, in the 1967 poem ‘In Passing‘ by Brian Harris:

To be born in Wales,
Not with a silver spoon in your mouth,
But, with music in your blood
And with…

Who’d have thought the streets of New York were so heavily influenced by the Soviet Army?
(thanks, and more links, here)

Sometimes things just happen without you noticing and only later do you notice their absence.
This morning as I was being surprisingly productive (considering that my prime work capacity peaks at…

An article in The Times about the importance of a change of worldview to the transformation of Africa:

Whenever we entered a territory worked by missionaries, we had to acknowledge that…

As you might have heard, the UK has been hit by some pretty severe snow storms during the last 36 hours. This morning I was horrified to learn that there were no trains running from Cardiff to…