Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Nov 30th, 2008
A truly perfect piece on Facebook by Ariel Leve in the Sunday Times today. Indeed, Facebook should have a feature to allow you to say Never show me that face again! There could even be money in it, and heaven knows they need the money from what I’ve read of their capital requirements. I would [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 22nd, 2007
Steve Bell’s cartoon in The Guardian is the best thing I’ve seen yet about the lost discs fiasco, dubbed the Winter of Disc Content by BBC Radio 4′s Today program this morning, namely the government’s losing data about half the adult population and a large number of dependents. More discs have gone missing. All this [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 14th, 2007
My other half accused me today of something like enjoying other people’s misfortune. Schadenfreude? Moi?! It was this report of Enemybook that triggered some mirth: With Enemybook, a new program that runs on the social networking site Facebook, you can connect to people you loathe, display their photos and evil deeds, and give them the [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 9th, 2007
There are only 10 days to the next release of Ubuntu Linux, version 7.10 (for 2007-Oct; Wikipedia article here). Much as I would like to think that Linux will, in the end, be to Microsoft Windows what Microsoft was to IBM, that seems a bit of a stretch at the moment. Linux was recently reported [...]
Posted in Misc on Oct 7th, 2007
On Sunday mornings I start the day with a bacon sandwich, the Saturday edition of the Telegraph, and the BBC’s Andrew Marr on the TV interviewing the great and the good (Robert Harris this week on his new book) and the larger political beasts. Being temporarily retired from the fight against hunger and poverty has [...]
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Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
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