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Living in the Cloud
2007-09-12 14:58:00 An interesting ?Web 3.0? concept is ?The Cloud ? ? a term used to describe, inter alia, that portion of cyberspace in which data resides ? yours, mine or anyone else?s. I?ve always been obsessive about backing up data, yet no solution I?ve yet used has given me the degree of protection that makes me feel ... More About: Living , The Cloud
Arms Trade
2007-09-11 15:49:00 Walking to a meeting yesterday, I strolled through a late-afternoon sun-dappled Berkeley Square (no nightingales) and down Berkeley Street into what seemed to be a gun siege. You know that feeling when your ?spider sense? sometimes kicks off? I had it in spades. There were close to fifty police milling ... More About: Trade , Arms
Arms Trade
2007-09-11 15:49:00 Walking to a meeting yesterday, I strolled through a late-afternoon sun-dappled Berkeley Square (no nightingales) and down Berkeley Street into what seemed to be a gun siege. You know that feeling when your ?spider sense? sometimes kicks off? I had it in spades. There were close to fifty police milling ... More About: Trade , Arms
Giving Your Right Arm for A Diamond
2007-09-05 09:00:00 OK, I can accept that some people may want to have their partners (or, indeed treasured pets) carbonized and turned into a diamond they can then sport as a fashion accessory (?Darling, is that your third husband you?re wearing? He looks gorgeous!?). But reading further, I grow apprehensive: ?Whether you’ve lost a loved one ... More About: Rants , Giving , Diamond
Giving Your Right Arm for A Diamond
2007-09-05 09:00:00 OK, I can accept that some people may want to have their partners (or, indeed treasured pets) carbonized and turned into a diamond they can then sport as a fashion accessory (?Darling, is that your third husband you?re wearing? He looks gorgeous!?). But reading further, I grow apprehensive: ?Whether you’ve lost a loved one ... More About: Rants , Giving , Diamond
Web 3.0 is Coming
2007-09-04 09:00:00 When Google?s c.e.o. says that Web 3.0 is on the way, you ought to pay attention. Personally, I had to play this twice before I got it? Listen to this podcast More About: Ming
Web 3.0 is Coming
2007-09-04 09:00:00 When Google?s c.e.o. says that Web 3.0 is on the way, you ought to pay attention. Personally, I had to play this twice before I got it?
Random Acts Of Reality
2007-09-03 09:00:00 Something dangerously addictive about ?Random Acts of Reality ?, a blog written by a London Ambulanceman. I don?t know any Ambulance-people (used to vaguely know some firemen ? a wildly priapic profession) but you get a real flavour of the job from Tom?s blog. Better than reality TV (but then, what isn?t?) More About: Ality
Random Acts Of Reality
2007-09-03 09:00:00 Something dangerously addictive about ?Random Acts of Reality ?, a blog written by a London Ambulanceman. I don?t know any Ambulance-people (used to vaguely know some firemen ? a wildly priapic profession) but you get a real flavour of the job from Tom?s blog. Better than reality TV (but then, what isn?t?) ... More About: Ality
Don?t Leave Home Without It
2007-08-31 09:00:00 Happy Friday, everyone! Hope the coming weekend is immoderately fantastic for you. Should you, by accident or design, find yourself abducted by aliens, do make sure that you?ve got your Location Earth Dog Tag on your person. You never know when you might need it. See you Monday! Listen to this podcast ... More About: Home , Leave
Don?t Leave Home Without It
2007-08-31 09:00:00 Happy Friday, everyone! Hope the coming weekend is immoderately fantastic for you. Should you, by accident or design, find yourself abducted by aliens, do make sure that you?ve got your Location Earth Dog Tag on your person. You never know when you might need it. See you Monday! More About: Home , Leave
CreateSpace: My Underwear Is Immaculate
2007-08-30 17:19:00 “Amazon becomes the ultimate clearing house for books of all kinds (and much else besides), with none of the traditional middlemen getting a look in. Genius. If you’re an agent, publisher, wholesaler, or retailer of books and you haven’t just soiled your undies, then you don’t understand what’s going on.” - Timo Hannay, ... More About: Publishing , Underwear , Create
Iran Will be Bombed
2007-08-28 22:02:00 I think it is a foregone conclusion that Iran will be bombed. I had an interesting discussion this afternoon with someone who is well-informed about the region, and much more of an insider than I am. He was considerably less certain about it than me, and I respect his opinion. However, barring last-minute changes of plan, ... More About: Rants
Don?t Panic. I Think.
2007-08-17 10:21:00 I like to blog the end of the working week with a light, optimistic ?And finally?? piece, so here it is. Recent crop circles in Wiltshire tell us the world will end tomorrow, Saturday August the 18th. The precise means of our undoing are, as yet, unclear, but may involve rays from outer space. Since ... More About: Panic
We Don?t Like Your Face
2007-08-15 17:45:00 This is getting sillier and sillier by the minute? and also, several more degrees more sinister. What kind of expression, pray, does a potential terrorist have on his or her face as they board their target plane? I suspect it?s surprisingly similar to the sort of expression on the faces of dozens of outraged airplane passengers ... More About: Rants , Face , Like You
The Truth That Sticks
2007-08-14 10:51:00 To dinner with the estimable Martin Bell last night. Martin is Britain?s Walter Winchell - perhaps uniquely for a television journalist (and former MP) he commands great respect and deep affection across a very diverse audience: he is a true British institution. Martin?s latest book, THE TRUTH THAT STICKS (which I am proud to have ... More About: Truth , Publishing , Tick , Sticks , Ruth
Hello, World!
2007-08-13 10:40:00 I?ve been away for the past week, much of it spent in the middle of a sugar beet field in (literally) darkest Suffolk, observing the universe, being shot at by poachers, and being terrified by a very large and attitudinous alpha-male hedgehog. As a result, there are over 500 e-mails in my inbox, ... More About: World , Hello World
DailyLit
2007-08-07 09:00:00 DailyLit sends you bite-sized chunks of public domain books (including many classics) daily, for free. Each serving takes less than five minutes to read, and if you want, they’ll send you the next instalment right away if you click a link. Listen to this podcast More About: Publishing
Evil Bert
2007-08-06 09:00:00 This isn?t new, bit it kills me each time I see it? Listen to this podcast More About: Evil
Benny?s Cash Problem
2007-08-03 07:00:00 As a youngster, I dabbled a bit in hypnotism. So, some years later, when I first saw TV evangelist Benny Hinn doing his thing, it seemed to be to be a pretty average and repetitive performance of stage hypnotism, nothing more. I now see from his website that money is tight, and he is now ... More About: Rants , Problem , Cash
Thanks for all the fish?
2007-08-02 09:00:00 Fascinating piece from a Lockheed Martin employee about terraforming Mars ? and beyond. He may be the first person to establish a dollar value on Mars realty; ?Sold at an average value of $10 per acre, Mars would be worth $358 billion.? The whole thing strikes me as full of human hubris, but ... More About: Rants , Fish , Hank
The Fur Flies?
2007-08-01 09:00:00 Continuing my infrequent (and entirely non-participatory, I hasten to add) excursions into the more outré backwaters of human sexuality, this will get your dander up? Listen to this podcast More About: Flies , Lies
Whither the BBC?
2007-07-31 09:00:00 I actually don?t know what the BBC stands for any more. I happened to be at the Tory party conference a couple of years ago and listened to a very disturbing speech by the current DG. I don?t believe it was reported anywhere, but I left wondering how the organization could possibly survive ... More About: Rants
Technical Tip
2007-07-30 09:00:00 In Word, enter =rand() and press Enter. Hey presto, you?ll find a screen full of whimsical text. But the text varies according to the ?locality? that Microsoft believes you to inhabit. Wary of upsetting the natives, the Microsoft backroom boys simply paste some inoffensive text from the help file for the American version. The English (proper UK ... More About: Technical , Technic
The New Contemptibles
2007-07-27 09:00:00 You?re sitting in your air-conditioned bunker in Nevada, La-Z-Boy recliner just at the right angle, can of Coke Zero within reach and nicely chilled. You?re feeling good and ready for action. Years of video gaming have prepared you for this moment. You push the stick back, unleash a ton and a half of guided bombs and ... More About: Rants , Contempt , Temp
The REAL Threat to Americans
2007-07-26 18:52:00 No need for comment ? other than saying, maybe we should get our priorities in order? Listen to this podcast More About: Rants , Real , Americans , Threat
Errorism
2007-07-26 09:00:00 So you go into a café, minding your own business, order a coffee and sit down to read for 5 minutes. Your dad printed out a couple of pages he found on the Weekly Planet?s website, which is a free independent newspaper published in Tampa, Fla. The article obviously tickled the old guy?s ... More About: Rants
Potty
2007-07-25 09:00:00 If you are having a hard time coming to terms with the last helping of HP sauce, may I caringly suggest the services of Ms. Terese Vorsheck, grief counsellor to those who ought to get out a bit more. Listen to this podcast More About: Rants
Getting the willies up?
2007-07-24 09:00:00 As a broad-minded agent-of-the-world, I sometimes deceive myself into thinking that I?ve heard it all before. Then something like this comes along to show me how very wrong I am? Listen to this podcast More About: Lies
Why Didn?t They Ask This About Iraq?
More articles from this author:2007-07-23 22:11:00 “The Times has learnt that the Ministry of Defence was unwilling to supply lorries and drivers without being guaranteed payment for their services.” - From The Times, yesterday’s edition, on the MoD’s refusal to assist victims of the worst flooding to hit England in 60 years. So they’ve got their priorities right, then. ... More About: Rants , Iraq 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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