Month: January 2012

  • Jane Austen, on blogging

    Jane Austen didn’t actually predict the rise of the internet and blogging. However I was struck by the following discription of letter writing, from her novella Catherine: ‘Why indeed, Mrs Percival,’ said Mrs Stanley, ‘I must think that Catharine’s affection for her bower is the effect of a sensibility that does her credit. I love […]

  • Turbalance Ahead

    Seth Godwin recently published a post about Unexpected Turbulence It’s hard to summarise a post that’s only four sentences long, but the final sentence struck me as being very relevant to the HS2 proposal: If your plan will only succeed if there is no turbulence at any time, it’s probably not a very good plan […]