About

Crashed Pips is my personal blog. It’s what I use to write about things (usually to slag them off) related to technology, politics and current affairs, with a smidgeon of creative writing and typographic fetish in there as well.

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Crashed Pips is powered by WordPress, and uses a slightly-modified version of the Tarski theme by Ben Eastaugh and Chris Sternal-Johnson. Previously, Crashed Pips has used (in order) Kubrick, Contempt, Freshy, Avenir (custom built), Carrington, a defaced version of WordPress Classic that was internally christened Panic Classic, Checkmate, Simplr and, most recently, Cutline (1.x series).

Web hosting is provided by the superb NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Where’d you get that funny name?

The name comes from BBC folklore, involving the top-of-the-hour time signals on BBC Radio. These are nicknamed the ‘pips’, and ‘crashing’ them, that is, talking or playing a record over them, is considered a cardinal sin. Taping the pips is a sackable offence.

The BBC does not endorse and has no connection with this Web site.

And this is me

Hello!

Jonathan Rothwell is a student and occasional blogger and writer, currently residing on the cruddy, forgotten end of Surrey (the side from which Michael “The Chinless Wonder” Gove hails). If you’re desperate to know more about me, my ‘about’ page is here.

Contacting me is easy enough: just send an e-mail to jonathan {@t> notGOLDSMITHroswell full stop com replacing the words for real punctuation marks such as @ and ., and removing the famous composer’s name.

My sexual preferences, my anatomy, and my bank PIN are of no interest to you whatsoever.