UPDATE: just spotted that it's one of those cunningly misspelt doppleganger accounts, this one has been set up by someone to mirror Sarah Vine as @stevehiitonguru (spelt with second i captialised so it looks like l). Someone suspects something...
Just noticed that both @stevehiltonguru & @sarahvine have got a very
odd, never before seen twitter bug where they coincidentally tweet
exactly the same things at the same time.
Hello fellows of festiveness,
What a lovely year it's been. Austerity has been all the rage, strikers on the streets, the world teetering on the edge of financial crisis - oh sorry, that's not all that good is it?
Anyhow, notwithstanding the waxing and waning of the world's woes - there are still some things in life you can rely on...
Lo! The 2011 aural missive has descended from the heavens!
Sad to report, even this stalwart of the season has been affected by the earthly imperative for cutbacks. However, while we may be smaller this year, we are still perfectly formed.
Either listen in the player or click the 'download' link underneath...
Merry Christmas!
PS You can find the Xmas Mixes going back to 2008 at http://warrenpearce.posterous.com/tag/christmas
Seductively simple idea, drawing on a plethora of sites such as Zipcar and Swap. Although many of these are yet to spread outside London in the UK, the potential is clear; especially in a period of economic hardship. I guess the nearest I've ever got to this is offloading stuff on Realcycle/Freecycle - although that's basically a one-way affair.
Most interesting perhaps is the prospect of peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing; for example, renting your vehicle (which spends most of its time unused) to someone else. The hurdle is the eBay-style reputation that will be needed to make P2P lending work. Building up a reputation buying and selling low-value items online is a lot more straightforward than through lending and borrowing cars etc...
<insert numerous festive puns here>
Christmas is a mix of the sublime and the ridiculous, and this Christmas mix has both in measures larger than your teatime port.
As usual, I'm leaving the contents to be a pleasant(ish) surprise. No tracklisting here, but if you want to leave any guesses, comments or complaints then please do so below.
DOWNLOAD YULEPHORIA: 2010 XMAS MIX
This is the third Xmix I've done, you can get Xmas Rush (2009) here and Operation Christmas (2008) here. Enjoy!
Hope you have a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year :-)
CREDITS: 
Private Eye for the cartoon (you should really buy it)
Graph Jam for the pie chart
Christmas Yuleblog (the Xmas muso-Don), Gumshoe Groove and many more lost in the mists of time for highlighting the music.
And of course, the artists (well, perhaps not Meco).
I use this zebra crossing at least four times a day at busy times. The road is fairly busy. I see at least one car a day drive through the crossing (presumably) oblivious to me standing patiently at the kerb waiting for someone to meet their obligation to stop.
Apart from being illegal, this may only be classed as an irritation. Except I think it's just the thin end of the wedge. I recently started crossing when the near side lane stopped for me, only to clock a car on the other side driving towards the crossing. I kept looking as I crossed until it became obvious it wasn't going to stop, necessitating a swift jog for the last few steps (unfortunately I was too shocked to take the registration, instead opting for pointlessly shouty swearing).
My question/plea: is there anything I can do about this, before someone gets hurt?
A cold, grey day is what Tamworth station is made for. All function, no form, it's simply a pile of cable, steel and concrete to enable alighting from trains.
