There’s been literally nothing on the news all day (barring Iris Robinson’s affair – moralist hoist by her own petard? – and HoonGate of course) except the snow. Being stuck at work I’ve been following the hash tag uksnow on Twitter, and responses seem distinctly less joyful than during the pre-Christmas snow. Not so much fun when there’s no chance it’ll extend your holidays is it?
In case you haven’t seen it, this is what the internet was made for – http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/
There’s something wonderful about taking the bit-too-serious, self-indulgent, reserved-for-managers-and-politicos-and-spammers networking site that is Twitter, adding a bit of Google Maps (I can see my house from here!) and making it a tool for tracking snow, pictures of snow, comments about snow. Whimsy is exactly what snow brings out in most of us who work in offices, and this nails it. Now someone just needs to write an app where you can have virtual snowball fights with the people who’ve tweeted near you…
The snow in the UK has been all over the news here in Germany. This feels faintly ridiculous.