Now I am a great fan, and user, of wacky and wonderful vehicles. But as JC himself says, the Carver could only have come from a country where drugs are legal. The Top Gear review is now on Youtube. It is mad, impracticable, and solves no problems that have not been [...]
There is an experimental website that investigates whether the mouse could be used for navigation with no buttons at all. It experiments with different ways of activating content by allowing the user to simple move the mouse over active areas of the screen. It is surprisingly intuitive for the user, but seems to [...]
The Washington Post’s analysis of the new White House strategy is the best I’ve seen so far. They too think that this week’s announcement was anything but a retreat.
Yesterday the White House admitted that the CIA runs a network of secret prisons, and that it would be transferring a number of prisoners to its prison in Cuba. Links are all over the web, and you don’t need me to replicate them for you here. Some have heralded this as a great [...]
I’m one of those people who think that you can’t have a large enough screen, and that the new 24″ imac, though I won’t be owning one any time soon, is a marvellous thing. In terms of pricing, the imac and macbook range are both competitively priced - it’s nice to be able to [...]
It’s a tough life being a journalist - living life in the search, in the hope, of being in the right place, at the right time to get ‘a scoop’. No wonder then that some journalists, and their editors, seem to have resorted to creating sensational stories for themselves to report:
According to an investigation [...]
I have never been keen on these new put-your-data-online services. Convenient they may be; secure they are not - as this analysis of Google Calendar shows. And, of course, identity theft is an ever-increasing problem. Any additional information available to a Google search seems like a poor idea, to me.
In Canada victims of identity-fraud who have their homes sold from under them seem unable to reclaim their property, which seems fairly outrageous.
Strange Driving Offences
Drunk in charge of a horse.