As regular readers will (both) know, I've been recommending the Sansa e280 as a great alternative to the iPod nano et al.

L recently lost hers, so we got another one, and Read more

Well, the appeal was posted, via what the Royal Mail now call 'Recorded Signed For™' in the first week of February. It still has not, according to their website's Track and Trace page, been delivered.

This is odd, because they're supposed to return such mail after a week of attempting delivery.

So a complaint has been made to London Travelwatch, following the discovery via a set of their minutes that the particular appeals service is actually based in Portsmouth!

An FOI request to the Department for Transport confirmed that Southeastern never bothered to apply to change their scheme when altering (i.e. reducing in the vast majority of cases) the opening hours of ticket offices and also taking away all Permit to Travel machines from numerous stations.

I reckon they should refund the money to everyone given a penalty fare from affected stations throughout most of 2007…

A look at the FOI requests published on the DfT site also shows someone thinks First Capital Connect have been naughty with their scheme.

Might be NSFW (Latin name for body part mentioned)

When the prosecution in the case I've been asked to be an expert witness declined at a very late stage to accept a whole host of things, including my status as someone who's an expert on male sex work, the person concerned suggested writing to a group of people in the field.

As ever, not everyone likes everyone else in this area, and even the main umbrella group has organisations with fundamentally different approaches and ethoses… so it's been quite amazing to see the comments come in and the various 'sets' be completed (like every significant organisation doing work with male sex workers in London and Manchester).

I was also hugely amused to have a chance to see some communication between the defence team – they were considering a number of people, in particular including someone with a PhD in the field who I have immense respect for. They collected statements from all of us, and the result was "I have to say that I far prefer the witness statement of Ian…"