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Ramblings on politics, technology, culture and poultry.

Friday, April 16, 2010

The debate

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Watching the ‘Prime Ministerial Candidates’ debate, it was impossible not to be struck by how little difference there was between all three ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Inequality and New Labour

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The Government's own National Equality Pane l produced a report called Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK . It shows: The househ...
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Monday, April 05, 2010

Cross-Pynchoning

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>“I don't understand! Why can't you help me?” wails the caller. “You're the fourth person I've spoken to. Everyone just p...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Shut that door!

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Muswell Hill has lots of 'health shops' - we have a Planet Organic, a Holland and Barrett, and two vitamin shops. Last week I went ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand

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Most of what you think you know about Jewish history is a myth, from the kingdoms of David and Solomon, through the Romans’ exile of the Jew...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Greenwash

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I spoke yesterday at the FT World Telecoms Conference. There was a panel on 'Green Issues'. I did the "Bad Fairy" thing - ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Ministry of Defence Bonuses

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Seems very unfair to victimise the civil servants who get bonuses at the MoD. It's an absolute item of management dogma that everyone ha...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Natural disasters are getting bigger

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According to this document from Munich Re-Insurance
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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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