Month: October 2006
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Nasty news from Tibet
This video, which looks horrifyingly like one of the dopey Flash shooting games my son plays, ran as an exclusive on ITV News this evening but it’s evidently been on…
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Wanted: PHP5 or Rails coder for eBay widget
Could you code a clean, usable web widget using the eBay API. Required functionality • The widget will display a user’s eBay items for sale (and possibly some other stuff)…
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Today’s stupidest job title
Independent Domestic Violence Advocate I know it’s not really funny and I know this is a serious job dealing with sad people and I’m pretty sure this job doesn’t actually…
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Another sad, jug-eared Tory comes out…
I bring you – without comment, of course – the voting record of Gregory Barker, utterly true blue MP for the constituency of Bexhill and Battle. I think you’ll also…
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Neglect, plain and simple
This note was sent downstairs long after bedtime by my eight year-old last night. He got his sister to bring it down because he’d been sent back to bed without…
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Competition in unexpected places
Competition has already arrived in bits of the marketplace that seemed out of reach not long ago: domestic electricity and gas supply for instance. So called ‘natural’ monopolies turn out…
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Hungary 1956 links
A handful of interesting archival videos at YouTube, including this lovely 90 seconds of trams in Budapest (nothing to do with the uprising, though, as far as I can see).…
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Computing in a (really big) box
Sun’s big black shipping container is the most exciting thing to happen in computer hardware since they stopped shipping them with casters.. I remember sitting around rapping with my friends…
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Reuters arrives. Cool departs.
I guess the warbloggers who’ve convinced themselves that hyper-objective, scrupulously neutral Reuters is an arm of the giant global liberal conspiracy will be sending their avatars to picket the news…