Archive for April 2007

An independent Scotland could “free ride”

Monday, 30 April 2007

The BBC’s economics editor, Evan Davis, has a good article in his blog on the economics of Scottish independence. He basically states that the revenue from North Sea oil and gas an independent Scotland would enjoy equals the funding it currently receives from Westminster. So when, in the not too distant future, the oil runs [...]

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Happy Anniversary!

Monday, 2 April 2007

Today is the first anniversary of the launch of my new website, complete with blog. Here are some stastistics for that first year:

42 posts (two of which were later removed)
124 comments on posts
35,000 spam comments automatically filtered
12,000 blog post page impressions (excluding the homepage)
Most popular post UK music industry silences radio for overseas listeners with [...]

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April Fools in a global medium

Sunday, 1 April 2007

I’ve decided not to post an April Fool on my website this year. That’s not because of a lack of imagination (well, OK, it’s partly that too) but rather that I realised the internet covers all of the different timezones, so it would always be the wrong day for the joke somewhere in the world.
I [...]

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