Author Archives: Natalie Bennett

Finding wifi hotspots: a website

May 8, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Just landing in my inbox (from an email I’ve already lost sorry, so don’t know who to credit), a potentially useful website, listing locations of wifi hotspots. I’ve tried it out on a couple of UK places and it looks quite good.

The listing is fully international; I tried it out on Belize, the most remote place my eye lit on in the list and it came up with one spot there. I’ve no doubt there are more, but at least it is a starting point.

And I won’t hold the fact that it comes from USA Today against it.

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A commercialisation too far?

May 7, 2007 – 7:29 am

Seen at the British Library shop (which is now threatening to take over the foyer…)

“Great works dinner plates”, featuring the handwritten famous lines of Bronte, Browning, Coleridge and Hardy. £45 for a set of four.

How will it feel when you are scraping your pasta sauce off “Reader, I married him”?

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From medieval Bulgaria to a Benedictine nunnery

May 7, 2007 – 7:28 am

You can travel a long way in the Sacred British Library exhibition, which I’ve just reviewed over on My London Your London. I’ve stuck largely to the history and avoided the theology – an obvious approach really, for an atheist!

And even in a religion exhibition I found the stories of a couple of interesting women get a decent place.

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Camden cycling tips

May 6, 2007 – 9:08 pm

A couple of notes:

* There’s a new cycling shop, Camden Cycles, on Eversholt Road (at the bottom end of the high street, on the left of Mornington Crescent Tube if you’re coming from Camden) which seems OK and has quite decent prices: £30 for a general service and £10 for new brake pads all around. (So now I’ve got brakes again after some time without – have to remember that so I don’t catapult myself over the handlebars.)

* Lock up well if you leave your bike at the British Library. A guard today was warning me that they’ve been having a lot of problems with thefts lately.

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The Britblog roundup

May 6, 2007 – 12:40 pm

… but not as you know it. Chameleon brings her own inimitable style to Britblog Roundup No 116 – if you think it is usually a collection of usual suspects, you’ll want to check this out for something different…

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What could you do with £5.1bn?

May 6, 2007 – 10:53 am

Well it seems all that it is going to buy you is 240 miles of slightly wider road, which will just move the traffic jams a bit further away from Britain’s M1.

Alternative suggestions: hospitals, schools, development aid for Africa, a citizen’s income…?

Isn’t it nice to know we’ve got a “green” government.

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