Bitterjug’s blog

Recently #youmightbeanatheist stirred up a trend on Twitter:

#youmightbeanatheist if you prefer to be informed rather
than have blind faith in something (DylanBrent) etc.

Meanwhile, despite TV ads from DECC’s Act on CO2, we still don’t  believe in climate change and we’re still not treating climate change as the emergency it is.
You might be an climate skeptic if:

You’re [...]

Colleagues in the office were just talking about mobile phone contracts.
“I have seen one for £27 per month that looked reasonable”
That’s three hundred and twenty four pounds per year.
Earlier this month I downloaded my bank transactions and put them into Gnucash. It was easy to calculate how much I spent on my pay-as you go [...]

A luxury kitchen advert opposite hundreds of Filipinos forced from their homes by typhoons. I wonder if the Guardian Weekend editors do this deliberately? The article about  climate-conference negotiator Bernarditas de Castro Muller gives a great inside view on the COP15 conference in Copenhangen in December.
Three things we can do together to help:
Sign the petition: [...]

In a surprising departure, these adverts for Windoze 7 do not contain the word “Microsoft”. The web address at the bottom is windows.co.uk which redirects to www.microsoft.com/uk/windows. Is this to disassociate the corporation from the mysterious “They” who “improved security” at the bidding whoever’s voice the advert is in — presumably the guy in [...]

Today, Gordon Brown writes:
Sarah and I are trying to do our bit. In Downing Street, we are composting, recycling, using energy-saving light bulbs and buying locally-sourced and sustainable food whenever possible. It’s little things like this which will make a big difference if we all do them.
David Miliband is less practical:
There will have to be [...]

Drew and Mithi asked for home-made stuff as wedding presents. Nic wanted to make bath cubes for them, with dried lavender and petals. But the lavender and petals on our window sill weren’t drying fast enough and their wedding day was approaching.
“I know how to make a solar dryer”, I said. For I did. Back [...]

Having just spent a wonderful weekend dancing at the London Lindy Exchange, today I’m taking a moment to mourn the death of Frankie Manning, the international ambassador of Swing Dance.
The name of this site is a kind of spoonerism of Jitterbug: another name for Lindy Hop, the original Swing Dance.
Below is a [...]

Hakuna Stima was a common situation for me when I lived in Kenya, it means the electricity is off. It used to happen about once per week as a scheduled event lasting about a day and, intermittently, the rest of the time giving our UPSs a hard time in the computer lab.
The night before last, [...]

So much of the climate-change and peak oil rhetoric is frightening and layden with difficult messages. This short movie gives a positive view of taking action. Such a relief!

It’s also beautifully and simply animated.