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The day after the UK election from lucy pepper on Vimeo.

Portugal-based British illustrator Lucy Pepper sums it all up perfectly.

Check out her blog too.

Back in May 2004 I posted a warning here regarding the dangers of allowing dogs to eat raisins ( ‘Raisin The Alarm  – Do Not Poison Your Dogs‘ ). I followed that warning up again last year with another post ( ‘Raisins And Grapes – Toxic For Dogs‘ ) – the reason for the follow-up post being that, depressingly, one of the constant themes seen in searches that arrive at this blog is still people with very sick dogs trying to discover if raisins could be the cause.

I think the two posts above pretty much cover the basic details regarding how dangerous raisins and grapes are for dogs so I won’t reiterate them here in this post. However, by chance the raisins & dogs subject came up in conversation recently and I was pointed to this document - Grapes, raisins and sultanas and other foods toxic to dogs (202Kb .pdf) published by the VPIS (London) Medical Toxicology Unit,

The document contains more useful and detailed information on the subject than you will find anywhere here.

Take care of your dogs – do not allow them to consume grapes or grape derivatives. Few people seem to realise this, so please pass this information on to friends who ‘own’ dogs.

Thanks to Stoney for pointing out the document.

If you are using CrashPlan as one of your backup solutions, you may want to fully read this blog post and then go on to fully read the related thread on CrashPlan’s user forums.

If you are using CrashPlan as your only backup solution, then you absolutely should follow the links above.

There are some serious questions being asked at CrashPlan by users of the service.

[Update: Note that as of 7th May 2010 this has never been satisfactorily resolved or explained. Crashplan are still evasive as to the possible cause of the failed restores, in my opinion. Due to this I personally have completely stopped using Crashplan on all of my systems. See the updated original blog post and the forum thread for the entire story.]

Almost a year after his sudden shutdown on Indie 103.1, ex-Pistol turned radio DJ Steve Jones is tentatively back on air with Jonesy’s Jukebox shows pencilled in for every Monday-Friday at noon-1pm (LA time).

Listen in here – Jonesy’s Jukebox Live.

If this isn’t good news to start off the year, then I don’t know what is.

A bust card is available for photographers in the UK who may be stopped and searched, or even detained, under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

“The card has been compiled by photographers with many years experience dealing with the police and stops and searches as well as legal advice from lawyer Anna Mazzola who specialises in public law, human rights, actions against the police and other detaining authorities.”

You can download it from the ‘I am a photographer, not a terrorist‘ website, or to save them some bandwidth feel free to download it from me directly by clicking on this link: UK Photog Bust Card (64k .pdf).

Either way, be sure to read further details regarding the card on this bust card page and also to read the comments on that page as they contain further useful unformation.