So. Many of the icons that computers use for email are quite, quite wrong.
Many of these programs show a depiction of a US Mailbox, the type that most Americans have at the end of their drive, all of which have a little flag on them. As depicted by computers, this flag is lowered if [...]
Is this story in the Telegraph journalists’ hype, or is it really conceivable that an aircraft could be downed by a bonsai tree? I’m simply not qualified to judge.
But between global warming and airline terrorism, I feel like I need a button on my desk that I can press to hear “We’re [...]
In the interests of balanced reporting, I should point out this piece in the Guardian that address many of the points raised by an article on global warming that I reported recently.
No time to really comment on this interesting read in the Telegraph blogs section, but I am currently enjoying the fact that the pound exchanges favourably to the dollar. Not only that, but taxes, wages, land costs and the like are so low in America that even here, what would be terrible luxury in [...]
If even a fraction of what this article about essay-writing in America is true (and all of it could equally well be true in Britain) then at least the preliminary response must be to put one’s head in one’s hands and sob uncontrollably.
Is it really true that crowds are wise? Of course not. Just try reading this classic work.
I’ve always been proud to show my passport to foreigners. That bit in the front about Her Britannic Majesty requesting and requiring is quite chuffing and makes one proud to be British. Of course, as more and more studies show that the British Government put RFID technology on the passport largely because it seemed [...]
If you don’t know what data-mining is, you could do worse than read this piece by the Register. It’s here to stay. I for one, find it’s most dangerous aspect the fact that Amazon.com is now able to tempt me into buying books I didn’t even know I wanted with greater and greater [...]
Two hours of lectures each week is hardly sufficient contact with students. Shame on the universities who are featured in this article. But shame, too, on the government, whose micro-managing of the university sector consistently rewards research and not teaching.
I don’t know what hideousness is hidden deep within these proposals, but the idea of a Freedom Bill, currently being mooted by the Liberal Dems seems like a jolly good idea.
It is not just that the measures they propose scrapping seem to me worthy of swift repeal, it is the underlying notion that [...]