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A dissatisfied response to Charles Clarke re: Digital Economy Bill

Following advice from Glyn Wintle, who pointed out that MPs can take no response as meaning satisfaction, I have written again to my MP Charles Clarke regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You can read my original letter here, and read Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Politics

Charles Clarke on the Digital Economy Bill

I wrote a letter to my MP, Charles Clarke, regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You can read that letter here. I’m very pleased to say that I received a personalised response two days later, albeit from one of his researchers Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Politics

A letter to Charles Clarke regarding the Digital Economy Bill

I wrote to Charles Clarke MP today, regarding the Digital Economy Bill. You might have heard me mention that a few times over the last few weeks. If you want to write to your MP, you can do so really Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Writing

Just Cause 2 video preview

Just Cause 2 is out at the end of this month. I’ve put together a video preview based on the amusingly ridiculous demo. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Writing

61,197 – in need of regularity

Had a good day of writing Of Rock And Earth today. I’ve been struggling with mild writer’s block for a few weeks, ever since I launched into ‘act 3’ of the story, finding myself suddenly in unfamiliar territory without a Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Politics

In defence of Dropbox and web lockers

Further to the misguided, disastrous amendments to the Digital Economy Bill brought in earlier in the week, Thursday saw the situation – somehow – get even worse, with the attempt to outlaw ‘web lockers’ such as YounSendIt and Dropbox. Cory Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Politics

Digital Economy Bill gets worse

Quick post, more thoughts to come later… To paraphrase a Michael Bay film, this shit just got real. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are positing an amendment to the bill that takes it into even scarier territory, enabling Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Writing

Mark Charan Newton’s Remix Project

A writer I discovered at the SFX Weekender last month, Mark Charan Newton, writes a blog containing all sorts of useful information for writers. It’s well worth bookmarking if you’re into that kind of thing. Something else that emerged from Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Writing

59,333 – part 2 complete!

Back to the word count subject prefixes for me, as I continue work on Of Rock And Earth, the novel that I began as something of an experiment for 2009’s NaNoWriMo. I successfully hit the 50,000 word limit by the Read more…

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago
Games

Heavy Rain previewed

The Heavy Rain demo appeared for the PS3 recently, marking the first game from David Cage since 2005’s Fahrenheit. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 16 years ago

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