Buggered if I know…

Our village bobby was driving along the road when he saw an old boy in his car crawling along at 17 miles per hour. He stopped him and asked why he was driving so slowly. The old boy replies – “well it’s 17 mph limit. You can tell by all those signs saying 17″ Our [...]

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Well if it comes to UK road travel I doubt that is the case… With occasion to be covering a fair few UK road miles in the past few days – and over the next week or two I suspect quite a few more – I thought I’d look up some stats to see whether [...]

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As I sit here quietly I cant help but be infected by the happiness I feel from, and for, Australians as a landslide victory is inevitable for the Australian Labor Party. This is not anything to do with my own political colour – I have written elsewhere publicly that I have no in-built bias either [...]

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Jeesh! I haven’t been employed, or resident, in the UK since Nov 2006. I advised Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs service (HMRC) of this during 2007 – in fact I received a tax refund sometime mid-year (because I hadn’t work the whole year in the UK hence was over taxed). Today I received a letter [...]

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All the hype was actually a bit of a misnomer – what actually exists, and has just been released as a Software Development Kit (SDK, via Google OS), is an open source development platform for Mobile Phones created by Google called Android. We may finally be able to do something useful with mobile phones… Is [...]

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Just in case you haven’t understood (and, presuming, you give a hoot) the sub-prime mortgage (meat?) market here’s a piece which might explain it by John Fortune & John Bird… All clear now?

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The question has been asked before many times, but it came spludging into the puddle of goo that passes for my brain whilst I was waiting to be seen by a specialist at a hospital nearby (oh, OK, I’ll level with you, it was Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge, UK). On arrival, I’d been handed a sheaf of [...]

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Blog Action Day aims to get everybody blogging about the environment today, 15 Oct. So, something which caught my eye on TV the other day was that, apparently large areas of Borneo and Sumatra native forest is being clear-felled and burnt. Why? To plant palm crops for profit – to supply the increasing demand for [...]

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I’m glad an Australian started this – Free Hugs Campaign. I do hope the Internet and related technologies help transform the way we exist as societies. Like Peace One Day… Or, am I just being naive? Buggered if I know…

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Having recently read this open letter to the Amiga community I wonder why they are even pursuing technology under a brand name that was last successfully used over 15 years ago (around 1992, the Amiga 1200, OS 3.x). Do they really think that, in an IT world which is now people and network centric (aka [...]

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