Kate Griffin freelance journalism and editing

Tonight is the tenth Oxford Geek Night. (All the cool kids are calling it OGNX, or so I hear.)

Chief geek-herder J-P Stacey has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it slot on Radio Oxford today at 12:30pm.

What should we do instead of building a third runway at Heathrow? Share your ideas here.

Protests certainly are hardcore these days. Last night I was obliged to do without any dressing on my helping of salad. Thankfully the music of the string quartet soothed my shattered nerves. As you can probably guess, I was attending Dinner At Domestic Departures, a peaceful protest against the building of a third runway at Heathrow airport. The event was organised by Climate Rush, who take inspiration (sartorial and otherwise) from the suffragettes.

Anyone paying attention to the teasers on the front page of this site might be bemused to see that a 2002 piece is apparently my “latest feature”.

I’m currently in the process of typing up some of my older articles, mainly the work I did for the Big Issue Cymru in the early 00s, and uploading each one when I’ve typed it. At the moment, everything is appearing in the order in which it’s uploaded rather than the order in which it was actually written.

We’ll be munching on mince pies tonight at the NUJ branch meeting. The meeting, at Oxford Town Hall, will be held at the new earlier time of 6:30pm and there will be sandwiches (as well as mince pies) to make things easier for people coming straight from work.

There’s a lot to discuss tonight, not least the worsening situation at Newsquest. The company, part of American group Gannett, is using the current economic climate as an excuse to impose pay freezes and job cuts, despite the fact that profits are still very high.