I remember when Directgov went live, I was proud that "I'd" made the BBC News Homepage, as its launch was the top technology article, and a link to the story surfaced towards the bottom of the page. (I experience a similar glow when I see links to the Department of Health site from the BBC's Health section, as I came up with the suggestion of it changing domains (from www.doh.gov.uk to www.dh.gov.uk) to be in line with its offline brand and to make the migration headache that much more bearable.) Today, I've gone one better.
I rarely submit comments to websites, but Pete Clifton's article last week inspired me to put fingers to keyboard. In spite of receiving "hundreds of emails", mine was one of the few he chose to reference, which made me grin widely. The fact that the article is linked to from the homepage with a teaser picture is even better. Ooops - there I go, grinning again. (Note: must stop smiling to myself in the office. People [will] think I'm weird.) For those of you that are too busy/can't be arsed to read it all, I can be found in the "You were saying..." section almost halfway down. "There must be hundreds of Dans in New York", I hear you say, but no others that would write to the BBC about inline links, is my retort. Nice to hear that he's in agreement with me. Obviously, my site constitutes a 'conversational column', and so I break my own rule :)
Slightly concerned for Alicia Hempleman-Adams in her bid to emulate her father David by walking to the North Pole. Two points in particular concern me:
- "She will be joined by her PE teacher Jo Simmonds"
- "It's going to be pretty cold...", a quote from Alicia.
Now I don't know about you, but I don't think being a PE teacher necessarily qualifies you to venture to the North Pole. I suppose, however, that Jo's geography skills will be up to scratch, given that it seems to be a pre-requisite academic subject for PE teachers to adopt. As for it being pretty cold, I think she might be right.
