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Changes planned, there are. 2010 will be a big year, eh Phil? Happy New Year to the extended Crumble family…

To Gerald Kaufman, MP; Tony Lloyd, MP; and Graham Stringer, MP. Given that Manchester will be the first city in the United Kingdom in which citizens can sign up for an ID card; Aware that the aforementioned represent constituencies in Manchester; Postulating that their votes in favour of ID cards means that they think that [...]

Use Folders, Idiots.

Seem to have avoided the dreaded jet lag – our strategy for managing what ended up a 33 hour journey from Manchester to Sydney seems to have worked.  It’s now 8am-ish and I’m sipping my morning coffee watching the sun ascend into the unbroken blue Australian sky, accompanied by the calls of both the birdlife [...]

Countdown until that momentous occasion when Unix time will equal 1234567890.

Today marks the fiftieth anniversay of the deaths, in a light aeroplane accident, of Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson (aka the Big Bopper), and Buddy Holly. At approximately 1:00 AM Central Time on February 3, the plane took off from Mason City Municipal Airport. Around 1:05, Jerry Dwyer, the owner of Dwyer Flying Service, could see [...]

All the festive best to the crumble.org readers, writers and netstumblers.

The album cover for the 1976 Scorpions album “Virgin Killer” has resulted in the clever bastards at the Internet Watch Foundation (motto: “stop what you’re doing on the internets, we’re watching you”) to add Wikipedia to their list of sites providing child pornography – or as their website itself states: Please note that “child pornography”, [...]

The Manchester Congestion Charge makes me furious. There is soon to be a public vote on the scheme, and the “YES” and “NO” camps are increasing their publicity on the locality. Let’s compare Manchester with London. London’s public transport network is the largest in the country and comprehensively covers a wide area.  In London, there [...]