Archive for the ‘ News ’ Category
Okay, there’s been a mistake on (so far) three exam papers administered this year. The latest is a multiple choice question on a biology paper for which no correct answer was supplied. Fine. This is bad and very sloppy on the part of the paper setters Edexcel. And, no, it should never have happened. However, [ READ MORE ]
So, the public have voted and the loser is AV. The UK referendum on changing the voting system used in general elections from first past the post to alternative voting failed to produce the result I was hoping for. We’re stuck with the old, and in my opinion inferior, first past the post system. 66.8% [ READ MORE ]
So, today I deliberately slept in (after all I’ve been forced by the government and current client to have a workless and consequently income-less day so why not make the most of it). Having forgotten to cancel my usual alarm it went off at 7:30. It’s a radio alarm. Can you guess what topic, above [ READ MORE ]
Okay, after my little rant about the feeble ‘No to AV’ flyer thrust through my door the other day, here’s the Alternative Vote system explained by Dan Snow. And here’s another one explaining AV from an historic perspective[ READ MORE ]
Occasionally something drops through my door that immediately makes me mad—strangely it tends to be some tripe from a political group. Today was one such day. This afternoon a leaflet dropped through (well, was shoved through) my door and a few seconds scanning it were enough to push my blood pressure up a few notches. [ READ MORE ]
This is another stupid thing that’s got me mad today. So, according to our European overlords insurance companies can no longer use gender as an actuarial factor. Why the hell not? Look, this is not a sex discrimination issue. It’s a statistics issue. Women crash less and when they do crash the results are less [ READ MORE ]
The UK government is considering stopping £300m a year in aid to India. This sounds appalling doesn’t it? Until you take into account a couple of other facts. India has more billionaires than the UK. India has a thriving middle class. India’s GDP at Parity is £3.8trillions while the UK’s is $2.16[1] India’s economy is [ READ MORE ]
There has been a significant amount of handwringing around the blogosphere about Apple’s latest announcements, to wit, the introduction of an App Store in the next Mac OS X”Lion” and the dropping of Flash and Java on Mac OS X. Java on Mac OS X is being deprecated. This means that Apple will not continue [ READ MORE ]
<rant> So, the UK government has written to all public sector workers asking them to suggest ways to meet the necessary cuts in public spending, a self serving effort to spread responsibility to be sure, but cuts are necessary so why not ask those closest to the coal face (the same people who demand to [ READ MORE ]
So Safari Reader is the end of the internet, or so you would think from some of the hysterical reactions to it. For those who don’t know (where have you been), Safari Reader is simple mechanism built into Safari 5 that presents a ‘Reader’ button in the address bar if the browser recognises the page [ READ MORE ]
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