Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jul 8th, 2009
I was half-asleep this morning when I heard on the radio that war had been declared, so it took a while for the news to sink in.
Turning later to the BBC News website and the story Google to launch operating system I found myself smiling, at this
One of Google’s major goals is to take Microsoft [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 19th, 2008
I see that Google is going to put Life’s archive online, and that 97% of the photos have never been seen by the public. Photos of Life
released from the morgue
triggered a small flashback to another act of kindness I experienced in New York — which many think of, and which sometimes likes to think of [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 2nd, 2008
I spent some of today wondering why it is that no Microsoft employee has suffered any public retribution for what they inflict on us.
Until today Skype had never worked properly on my Vista PC. I gave up long ago and used another PC for Skype. Periodically I updated Skype on the Vista box, and tried [...]
Posted in Misc on Feb 4th, 2008
For decades British politicians have genuflected at the altar of the holy cow known as the National Health Service, each party promising before every election that it would spend more and keep it safe. The aspiration — of a minimum standard of care for all, regardless of ability to pay — has been noble. It’s [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 27th, 2007
I am writing this, a little reluctantly, using an impressive offline blogging tool called Microsoft Live Writer. My misgivings arise in part because I am unhappy with Microsoft’s attempts to bundle extra software and get it onto my computer. The installation for Live Writer offers first this
and then this list of additional software
Yes, I know [...]
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