Hello. My name is Katy Bairstow, and I use peer-to-peer file sharing. There. I said it, and I suspect that anyone who follows me on Twitter will hardly be surprised by the fact. I’ve been talking a lot about the Digital Economy Act lately, the way in which it became law, the lack of scrutiny [...]

Once again a high street bank proves that the only person I can trust with my personal data is…me. I recently applied to Barclays for a bank account and as part of the process had to send them a signed copy of the application and 3 months of bank statements from another financial services provider. [...]

According to data uncovered by the Tories, and released by the BBC and The Guardian only 46% of state secondary schools entered pupils for the seperate science GCSEs last year. In fact less than 20% of exam entrants sat Physics, Chemistry and Biology seperately, probably mostly due to independent and grammar schools in which the [...]

I’ve been holding off on publishing my views on the whole MP expenses debacle until I could get my sticky-mitts on the data, and it makes very interesting reading. For those of you who’d like to delve in yourselves, you can download this Open Office spreadsheet with all the data MPs Expenses ’07-’08 (if you [...]

Thinking about the Atheist Bus campaign and how I’ve spent much of the week explaining to potential clients that PageRank is not the be-all-and-end-all of search positioning – well I just had to, didn’t I?