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I’m now working in IT which is mostly good fun so I don’t have much time for blogging anymore. I’m also learning a lot of new technologies too which is interesting. In fact the only reason I have time now is that I’m heading up to Manchester by train to meet up with a good [...]

I feel I owe a retraction from my previous piece: http://matthewhutton.com/2009/03/uk-democracy-still-functions/ The MP’s last week published their expenses in full after blacking out almost all of the detail – unfortunately they didn’t quite black out enough: Now aside from blacking out the class of travel, the number of people travelling, the ticket type and the [...]

I sent my European Parliament members an email this morning about the EU extending copyright from the current term of copyright for sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years. The vote on this issue is going to be this Thursday. Anyhow within today I got an email from both of my Liberal Democrat MEP’s [...]

I’ve uploaded the final set of photos from the last part of my trip and named them over the past few days. You can view these on my photo page.

I was always going to give some awards at the end of my trip and this is the award for the final third of the trip. As well as this I will follow this post with some overall awards which will include some additional awards as well. That post will follow this evening UK time. [...]

I will also be having some awards for the last 1/3 of my trip as well as some overall awards – these will follow this post tomorrow. The second day I was in Saint Petersburg I headed over to Peterhof by train, this train worked OK, but it did have the worlds dirtiest windows as [...]

I will also be having some awards for the last 1/3 of my trip as well as some overall awards – these will follow the second St Petersburg post. First I want to talk about some details I missed about the Trans Siberian. One thing that seemed to happen every night is that snow blew [...]

On Wednesday evening I made my way into St Petersburg and then took the metro for the one stop journey to my hostel. The journey was fairly uneventful except that it was much slower than necessary due to the train spending large parts of the trip travelling very slowly – so in that respect it [...]

We arrived into Moscow on Monday afternoon, arriving into a busy city was great. First we wanted to get to our hotel and as we had a fair bit of luggage we thought we’d get a taxi. Unfortunately aside from the dodgy guys who offer you a taxi on the platform itself there didn’t seem [...]

After a good nights sleep we awake to be crossing the Gobi Desert, this is a pretty large desert in the south of Mongolia, we saw quite a bit of wildlife including sheep and deer as well as some traditional Mongolain yurts – it was mostly just scrubland. However there did appear to mostly be [...]