you've got your data, and then you've got your text

This article is really, very interesting: A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change. It's talking about the amount of ongoing data that gets collected by journalists, and then presented as a story. Maybe not ongoing, maybe similar. Like the Sydney Morning Herald seems to be doing shooting stories at the moment, so, you'd have a lot of data about shootings, where, what time of day, the circumstances, the people involved, etc if you had some way of collecting the stories together and tabulating the data.

Yum, yum, tabulated data.

What I'd really like is for the Herald to provide links to the data its quoting, or a link at least to the organisation that's put out the report. The BBC does it, the Guardian does it, so it'd be really nice if the Herald did as well.

25/10

How hard can it be to remember somebody's birthday?

Hmm, for me very hard, especially when there's lots, too many 5's involved. For instance the number 25, it's 5 x 5 . And 10, 2 x 5. And 2 + 5 = 7, another of my least favourite numbers.

I guess I'll just have to remember it.

My mum got this letter . . .

. . . but I didn't call the number on the letter.

"Oh?"

No I got your number from my local member. Can you tell me about this letter?

"Not really, it'd be better if you called the number on the letter."

Oh, okay. But it's like this - my mum is really unhappy about the letter . . .

"Well, I don't know enough about it. It'd be much better if you called the number on the letter, and speak to those people. They'll have much more information."

Oh, okay. Goodbye.

"Goodbye."