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#oneaday 58:Citius, Altius, Fortius
So says the Olympic motto – faster, higher, stronger. Indeed this year’s Olympics could and should do a lot of things for Britain. Much has been written about the legacy vs cost of the whole project and the latest figures to be quoted show a hard cost of £9.1Bn to the UK tax payer.; To […]
#andypayne55: Progress through conversation
November 10, 2011
So FIFA backed down over the Poppy row? Not exactly what actually happened was a diplomatic agreement was made after some protest and subsequent discussion. FIFA’s rules are not actually broken and the FA supported by its chairman the Duke of Cambridge, got acknowledgement that their voice was heard. Poppies will be present on the […]
#andy payne 54: A corner of a field that will forever be England
November 9, 2011
When asked by a good friend last week in the pub on Bonfire Night [a celebration of the execution of those involved in a Papist plot to assassinate the King of England some 400 years ago], about my views on FIFA’s decision to ban the Poppy from the England football team’s shirts at this weekend’s […]
andypayne53 – Democracy know your [place in] history
November 3, 2011
According to Wikipedia, ‘Democracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all the people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal (and more or less direct) participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law. It can also encompass social, economic and […]
andy payne52: The day I asked the Prime Minister for computer science
August 27, 2011
I should have written this up at the time, I drafted it, half finished, half dusty. Having just read Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture from the Edinburgh Festival today, it took me back to a brisk winter morning in Oxfordshire. It was Thursday 1oth March 2011. It turned out that this was a very special day […]
#AndyPayne 51: To be someone is just a wonderful thing
August 9, 2011
I have been silent on the #oneaday project for too long and yet we are living in the most extraordinary times. Since I last wrote we have seen the unravelling of the Murdoch empire and for most of us that must be a good thing for our democracy. More on that another day though, right […]
Andy Payne: E3 – A kind (of) view
June 23, 2011
It was my first time back in LA at E3 since 2006 and it was both exciting, stimulating certainly never boring. Would we see the true dawn of a new platform less frontier where the Cloud was all? Or would we see platforms continuing to plough their own furrow, vying for the top development talent […]
Andy Payne 49: It’s all about leadership
May 15, 2011
Today is the day that West Ham United will prove that they do not live up to their name. West Ham yes, United no. I written so many times before about the appalling lack of leadership at the club that I am bored by the whole thing and cannot wait for this season horribilis to […]
Andy Payne 48: Christmas in May
May 14, 2011
I woke up this morning at 6am and just could not get back to sleep, no matter how tired I thought I was. Nothing unusual in the Spring or Summer months, I am usually so keen to get up and get outside into the garden, I think I just wake up with the sunrise. But today […]
#Andy Payne 46: Chancey the Manager
May 8, 2011
One of my favourite films of all time is the last film Peter Sellers ever made, ‘Being There’. It was a tale of a man (Chance - the gardner) who lived in near isolation, although not poverty, in a busy world and who by chance becomes a confidant to the president of the United States of America and extraordinary […]
Andy Payne 44: AV – more stats
May 1, 2011
I have just been looking up the voting percentage splits from previous elections over the last 30 years in the UK and it seeems that there is a recurring theme here:- 1979 the results of the three main parties were: Conservatives, 43.9% of the vote, 339 seats Labour, 36.9% of the vote, 269 seats Liberals, […]
Andy Payne 43: AV and Alternative View
May 1, 2011
I came across this blog yesterday, written incidentally by a man I met many years ago when he worked in the video games industry. I actually thought this was pretty interesting given it was written not only by a Conservative, but a Conservative who actually works in public service as a Conservative, Mr Andrew Boff. I […]
Andy Payne 42; A wedding for ‘friends and followers’?
April 29, 2011
Friday 29th April 2011 and the big day is here. Up with the lark, this time though no trip to London for me, today it’s a family affair, like weddings should be. Mum, Dad and Mother in Law are all round our house to watch the royal wedding. Nearly 30 years ago, I went to […]
Andy Payne 41: AV: Facts on the Fly(er)
April 27, 2011
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What a fantastic weekend we had. 4 days off and the most wonderful weather here in the UK. So fantastic that I decided to attend a wonderful Point to Point race meeting in the Cotswolds with friends. Glorious sunshine, happy faces, a few decent horses, some very game riders and plenty of advertising hoardings, flyers […]
Andy Payne 40: When intelligent people can’t add up
April 21, 2011
Having decided that the Referendum on AV is not actually going to costs tax payers any extra, the next issue to consider is if we vote to bring in AV, how much will it cost to implement at the next general election? If you read or watch the #No2AV campaign materials, it will cost the […]
Andy payne 39: There but for the grace of God
April 21, 2011
They say life is full of ups and downs and you only really appreciate the ups when you have had plenty of downs, but sometimes things happen that give you a glimpse of what life could be like. When you see those things, if you have an ounce of humanity, you will be shaken to […]
Andy Payne 36: Small is beautiful
March 3, 2011
I wrote this in December 2009…..I still think we are in amazing times, no matter what the President of Nintendo says I consider myself lucky enough to be born in the 1960’s, at school in the 1970’s and started my career (or job as we used to call it) in the 1980’s. I lived through […]
Cancer Research
February 5, 2012
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