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With more and more tablet computers making an appearance, the thing that strikes me is the size of their screens. There seems to be a trend to the small, positioning themselves between the iPad’s 9.5 inch display and the typical smartphone 3.5-4 inches. So what is the market? Why choose a particular screen size? Having [ READ MORE ]
Today BP capped the well head (well, we’re waiting for the final ‘yay, it worked’ as I write), but a few things are notable from the coverage I have seen in the media so far. As someone who works in a technical field, but deals with non-technical people, I have a huge amount of sympathy [ READ MORE ]
Well, the twists keep on coming. Today we have seen the Lib Dems open formal talks with Labour, Gordon Brown resign, and the Conservatives offer a referendum on electoral reform. Each of these moves is significant and they form a natural pattern. The Lib Dems were always going to insist on electoral reform as part [ READ MORE ]
Those who read my last post will be aware that, so far as the broader result is concerned, I got my wish — a hung parliament. This creates a very complex and interesting situation. I will preface this discussion by saying that this is hugely complex situation with many possible outcomes, I am discussing here [ READ MORE ]
Well, that’s it for me. I have submitted my postal vote for the 2010 UK election and, while it is my right to maintain silence on for whom I voted, I choose not to exercise that right in this post. On this occasion my reasons for voting as I have are mixed[ READ MORE ]
I use a tool called PersonalBrain when I need to collect lots of snippets of information and build a web to show how the information interrelates. Lucky you, I can make these Brains (their name, not mine) available online as WebBrains. So here‘s the one I am working on during the 2010 UK Election. Enjoy [ READ MORE ]
My thanks to Steven Uncles for the folowing. Not only is the English Democrats’ manifesto represented on the BBC Election 2010 Web Site it is and has always been on the National Web Site. Mr Uncles did not see fit to provide actual links to the information, but I suppose I mistook his intent, assuming [ READ MORE ]
Okay, so it’s come time to look at who we want to steer the country through the next five years — and for me to put aside my general cynicism about politics for a few weeks. Before I go on, I am just an ordinary shmoe. I am no politics major, so don’t expect deep [ READ MORE ]
There is much to hate about the Global Warming movement, especially the politics involved. Any query is met with, ‘denialist!’, irrespective of the merit of the question. There is also a tendency to overstate the case. A Newsnight episode back at the start of December 2009 invited an ex-scientific advisor to the UK government to [ READ MORE ]
Why do so many people treat the act of giving to good causes, such as (in my opinion), the RedCross, MSF, Oxfam, CharityWater among many others, as something to be done in response to a disaster such as the Haitian earthquake? Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s terrific that people do give and the Haitians [ READ MORE ]
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