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“French financial watchdogs slammed Nicolas Sarkozy for spending £160m during his country’s six-month stint in charge of the EU – including £250,000 on a personal presidential shower that he never used.”

- Sarkozy spends £250,000 of EU budget on shower he did not use | World news | guardian.co.uk

Doth I protest too much? | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:50 +0000

Doth I protest too much? | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian:

Everyday I’m starting to get a bit more “fuck the po-lice”

"Christian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he’s got to move quickly. He has a list of 10..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:37:15 +0000

“Christian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he’s got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for which he’ll earn just $200.”

- The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell | Magazine

"Have you heard of Highrise? I use it as my contacts manager and increasingly my daily to-do..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:40:00 +0100

“Have you heard of Highrise?

I use it as my contacts manager and increasingly my daily to-do list.

That said 37Signals might be minded to include these features (or dare I say fixes) because at the moment it’s prettiness sometimes outweighs the overall utility.

So here are 10 desperately needed features for Highrise.

1. Count of tags
How freaking hard could this be to implement? Answer - not very. Even I know the SQL code for this one. Is this useful? Of course, it’s often the first question I ask when I’m filtering data.

2. Need a files tab
Locating files for deletion would be a tad easier if they were listed in one place. I wonder why they don’t give us that…

3. I forgot to BCC
I hate this. Is there a way to attach an email to a contact where I forgot to BCC? I’m just glad of Gmail’s undo feature.

4. Full text display
OK I’m on a contact. Give me a button to expand all text entries. Opening notes one at a time is plainly inefficient.

5. Which leads me to better search
If there’s a big weakness in 37Signals products is the lumbering search feature. I’d like to search the current contact only sometimes (and in Basecamp searching a category would be also be neat).

6. People are complex
They work or represent in more than one company. Some people even have more than one title.

7. Finding a contact
This is a bit basic but c’mon put the contacts search box on *every* tab.

8. Task categories should be clickable
There, I just said it.

9. I need more Cases
Arguably the one thing that makes Highrise worth paying for are Cases. Cases simply allow you to group notes/emails from any contacts into one place to which you give a name. For $12 a month I get 3 cases, 3 wrappers for my data. For double that amount I would get a whopping 5. I recall 37Signals saying they tried to give more than double the value when you upgraded. How about 10 cases for $12 to start with?

10. Gantt charts?
Bad joke. I only had 9.”

"The right to report parliament was the subject of many struggles in the 18th century, with the MP..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:10:19 +0100

“The right to report parliament was the subject of many struggles in the 18th century, with the MP and journalist John Wilkes fighting every authority – up to the king – over the right to keep the public informed. After Wilkes’s battle, wrote the historian Robert Hargreaves, “it gradually became accepted that the public had a constitutional right to know what their elected representatives were up to”.”

- Guardian gagged from reporting parliament | Media | The Guardian