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Ramblings on politics, technology, culture and poultry.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

The public are fed up with calls to cut their carbon emissions

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Already. Before they actually did anything about it. At least according to this research from the Institute of Public Policy Research. I su...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Dogs lost and found

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Always wondered whether those 'Lost Dog' notes posted on trees ever resulted in any dogs (or cats, or parrots) being found. Why shou...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Seminar on Climate Change and Violence - 9th October 2009

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On Friday 9 th October I attended a workshop on Climate Change and Violence organised by Crisis Forum , and held at Senate House in centra...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Why are we in Afghanistan?

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It's the drugs. "We" are there to ensure that the flow is uninterrupted. I realise that this sounds like weird conspiracy stuf...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Interesting piece about virtual worlds, gaming...with implications for enterprise UC

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Even though the author doesn't say so, I think this article in The Guardian leads to some interesting thoughts about enterprise IT and ...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

Loose and Tight models of Sustainability

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For some sustainability optimists, the simultaneous crises of climate change and peak oil (to which we must now add the economic slump a...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

The sad death of Michael Jackson

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The only comment I've found worth reading was this one by Hadley Freeman in The Guardian - about the false dream of celebrity. My first...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Is this what they really meant?

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From the website of the Edwardian Radisson Hotel at Heathrow : "We believe in doing business with a clear c...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Whoopee! Ubuntu now talks to my video camera!

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And all thanks to this guy who posted a fix that worked!
Friday, June 12, 2009

Kastner on TV

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A couple of weeks ago I watched the Storyville programme about Kastner (entitled “The Jew who talked to the Nazis”), and it stirred me up a ...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Zionism and the holocaust again

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I've written before about the moral sadism implicit in the accusation that Zionists (or Israelis) are the new Nazis. The flip side of t...

Powerline ethernet...

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...is wonderful! It just works! Why have I waited so long? Why have I spent hours sodding about with WiFi?
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Museum of Agriculture and Food

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Yesterday I went to the Science Museum - in the first place to see the 'Japan Car' exhibition and then since I was there, to take in...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Grump about the Cardinal

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The radio news kept repeating the 'story' that Cardinal Cormac McWhatshisface is going to give a lecture in which he will warn about...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Oyfn Pripitchik and Lark Rise to CandlefordP

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No-one seems to have noticed that the theme music for the BBC series "Lark Rise to Candleford" bears an uncanny similarity to the ...
Monday, February 09, 2009

Gollywogs and Jewish dolls

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As the Carol Thatcher row got started, and the predictable right-wing response about how this was yet another case of "political correc...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Can CIOs count carbon?

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No, they can't. This piece by Fujitsu says that they don't realise they shouldn't count emissions by organisations to which the...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Eco-Team

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Had the very first meeting of our neighborhood Eco-Team group - part of an initiative by the charity Global Action Plan , in conjunction wi...
Monday, October 06, 2008

More climate change scenarios

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A Guardian article from Vicky Pope, head of climate change at the Hadley Centre. Technically much more proficient than my humble effort - b...
Friday, May 02, 2008

What does not kill me makes me stronger

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Everyone has a worst nightmare - not something they worry about, but a real nightmare that they have from time to time. Mine used to be the ...
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