It’s National Clean Air Day today, so I wrote the following letter to my MP. Hi Ruth, Congratulations on your re-election to represent the people of Chiswick again. I am extremely concerned about the air pollution situation in this country and the lack of will by the current Government to address this with a cohesive […]
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PC World Customer Service Problems
Update on the PCWorld DPD eCommerce problems. 25/04/2017 @ 9:30 Soon after I published my blog post about PCWorld’s terrible customer service I started receiving some strange comments on it. At first, I thought they were a friend messing around with me. So I thought nothing of it but they kept on coming and they were […]
Justice & The Science of Climate Change
It was an honour to speak alongside Energy Expert Steve Pye and Pastor Mark Melluish at St Paul’s Church last night. Here are my slides from my part of the talk, with audio and video following from St Paul’s soon.
When IT goes bad – a story of PCWorld and DPD system failures
Timeline of how PC World and DPD deliveries completely fail their customer. 27/03/2017 @ 10:49 I made an order for 3 items with my PC World business account. The PC World website did not confirm which delivery address the order would be shipped to. 27/03/2017 @ 10:50 I received the confirmation email from PC World […]
The Carbon Cost of Skiing
We love to ski almost as much as we love the environment but there is an obvious conflict between the two. The two factors that most concern us most are the CO2 emissions from the travel and the air pollution from vehicles in the vulnerable mountain regions. Looking into travelling to Mt Blanc, we found […]
Thoughts on Beyond The Flood
After watching Beyond The Flood we came to the conclusion that the world is in dire peril and how we approach this information comes down to the following metaphor: When the Titanic was sinking how did you choose to spend your last 15 minutes? Were you fighting for a place in the lifeboats, hiding in […]
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Vintage bike frame to Fixie Project
Given a clean and straight vintage bike frameset from the 50’s just add the following for a simple and great fixie: Flip flop rear track wheel (check rear dropout width)- Rayleigh £78 Any old modern front wheel from Gumtree – Campagnolo Khamsin £20 Modern Bottom Bracket English Thread (check axle width for a straight driveline […]
Relative Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Given the earth’s level of atmospheric CO2 has recently breached the 400ppm barrier and it is proven that CO2 levels in the atmosphere affect our climate, I thought I’d have a look into measuring and reducing the carbon dioxide my family’s activities emit. Using the excellent Carbon Calculator at Climate Care http://climatecare.org/calculator/ we can get […]
Teaching the teachers Scatch
I enjoyed giving the following quick talk to the teachers at St Paul’s Brentford this week. Most exciting though, was that I got them all coding, and they loved it!