Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

I wish Chiltern Trains would either get rid of their ‘quiet’ coaches or do something to make them less appealing to noisy people.
There are always those who ignore the rules, which only serves to make other people indignant and angry. And let’s face it, few people are going to ask a hooded youth to turn [...]

If you promise something for a certain time (eg every Tuesday) don’t forget to do it :-/

Right, this is the very last time I respond to a meme – chain letter, whatever you call it – on this. I wrote Seven things you may not know about me, and thought that was it. Now Ellie Lovell has gone and tagged me with one that requires twenty five items.
So here, sort of [...]

Simply a flash mob of Twitterers in Birmingham City Centre. Bring along a sign with something like "I'm a twitterer", "Twitter rocks", "tweet tweet" written on it. At midday we (I guess I ought to join the humiliation; what have done to deserve this?) will stand still for two or three minutes, holding our signs up. For people to laugh at. So the more who join us the less embarrassing it will be. Actually it's a great idea for showing our physical presence to the nay-sayers, so please come along if you can. And it'll be fun. Honest.

Visit Twitter flash mob in Birmingham tomorrow

Our friend Karen Strunks has been taking photos of local areas at 4.00 in the morning. Now she's trying to get the rest of us to do the same. Get up at 4am on 4 April and take some photos.

Visit 4am Project

Keep your change of clothes dry by putting them inside a bin liner before putting them in your rucksack.

From 28 February a law in New Zealand will require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to disconnect from the internet anyone accused of copyright infringement. The law won’t require convictions or even evidence: an accusation will be enough. Yet it seems that unsullied enjoyment of Twitter is more important to people.
Perhaps it’s different in New Zealand [...]

Producing a consultation document that the average member of the public can understand is easy, if you really care. Birmingham itself has plenty of top class graphic communicators, journalists, copywriters and sub-editors. The Big City Plan is such a massive undertaking that there are, presumably, the financial resources to make sure the public is consulted properly. It seems that it’s just the will that isn’t there.

Tweelove is a lovely little service that lets you send nice anonymous greetings to people on Twitter.

These are my links for 11 February 2009 from 12:40 to 12:40