Daily Archives: February 10, 2006

I don’t usually quote The Register, but this seemed interesting.

… is not what it was. In Today’s copy of Varsity, the Cambridge Student Newspaper is a large front-page article about room rents in college. You start with a screaming headline: Are rents fair? £337 – £913 A room at Peterhouse, the college with the lowest average rent A room at St John’s, the college […]

Apologies if these posts seem a little confused. I’m using Firefox on a Linux machine at the Engineering Dept., and it’s proving a little unwieldy.

This is really a continuation of the previous post, but I thought it was worth separating out. How do we stop things like the drinks mentioned before, with labelling which is clearly contradictory and fundamentally, morally wrong? (Stop me if you think I’m making too big a deal over this). Well the answer is clear: […]

Today I bought a sandwich. It was a bit plain, and filled with rather too much salad for my liking. On the way out of the shop, I noticed an advert for some new fruit drinks. “No additives,” the label proclaimed, just under the bit which said “vitamin enriched.” Is it just me, or are […]