Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Darryl Collins, local poster-boy for entrepreneurship, writes about how nicking Wifi is bad.
I caught this piece on Radio 4’s “You and Yours” last Thursday. I was so incensed by the lack of balance they were giving the issue of people accessing open wifi networks that I went back and listened ...
Posted in Annoyances, Bedouin, Wireless, politics | 3 Comments »
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Because you're a small arm of a big political party and you're so desperate for candidates that you beg for them in the blogosphere
The crazy thing is that I actually considered it. My dad has been a lifelong Tory and I know it would make him proud. And some of ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Ian Paisley Junior has confirmed he is receiving a salary from Westminster as a researcher for his North Antrim MP father.
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"It means he is being paid as an assembly member, a junior minister and also by his father from his parliamentary allowances," he said.
The rest of the article focuses ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I'm a firm believer in a society founded on a results-based economy. Now that may be a term used by financial whizzkids out there in the real world, but what I mean here is that in your interactions with people daily, you should be considering the end result - what ...
Posted in Commentary, Do Something Now, Social, politics | No Comments »
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Damien posted this link to a story on the Machinist blog about how smartphones (and not just iPhones) can get you into trouble.
One exception to this is a search incident to arrest -- if the police are arresting you, they can search you and your possessions without first obtaining ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Yes, it's time to stop buying anything to do with Western Digital. They think we're scum.
One of the world's largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing online their media files that are stored on networked drives.
Western Digital says the decision to block sharing of music and audio ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
As reported in Computerworld:
In a brief submitted to federal court, state antitrust regulators dismissed companies such as Google and Mozilla Corp. and technologies such as AJAX and software as a service as piddling players that pose no threat to Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system and browser markets.
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"In spite ...
Posted in Commentary, Mac, infurious, politics | No Comments »
Monday, November 26th, 2007
A few weeks ago, Her Indoors made an off-hand comment about how I should do more for good causes. At the time I grunted as my attention was elsewhere but the statement didn't leave me and I've been mulling it over for the last few days. The outcome of this ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Stephen Fry gets into an argument about global warming (which is a good read in itself) but also starts off with this gem of an observation.
when I get into a debate I can get very, very hot under the collar, very impassioned, and I dare say, very maddening, for once ...
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