The pinch gets felt at Gawker towers…

Just had a wander over to Gawker and was sad to see this:
Yes, it’s true: Gawker’s sibling sites are laying off 19 people. This site is one of those that will be expanding. The internal memo is after the jump. Gabriel Snyder of W magazine will indeed be replacing me as managing editor and we [...]

Lehman Brothers and financial crisis.

Wow. Not only am I a day late on this, I’m also totally unqualified to write about it. I was going to do what normal bloggers and armchair economists do in this case: read news sites and other blogs, cherry pick the stuff that they agree with (which in my case is anything with the [...]

An Icarean fall, or Why I decided not to go to Dublin this year…

It’s not that I don’t love going over the reasons why I had to put my long-term dream on hold whenever I see someone I haven’t seen in a while, honestly. I’m actually a big fan of being thought of as a highly disorganised flake, big fan. It’s just that I’ve got the story down [...]

Daedalean upswings & Icarean falls…

Way back during my Freshers’ Week (October 2004 – fact fans) I finally got my reading list for the first term. Why Greyfriars hadn’t been able to post it to me is a question I still haven’t found the answer to, although I’ve got my suspicions… Anyway, said reading list featured, amongst a variety of [...]