Last week, the UK High Court ruled that Lik-Sang could not sell Sony PSPs into the UK, even though they were selling direct from Hong Kong. Under EU law, if you want to sell something into the EU with a trademark, you need the trademark holder’s consent.
In other words, even though you’ve bought it from […]
One of the better tricks known to OpenOffice.org users is in fixing Word document corruptions. You open up the document in OpenOffice.org Writer and then save it and there’s a good chance that the problem will go away and you can use it in Word again.It’s bizarre. The one place that should be able to […]
PM Challenged Over Post Offices
Conservative leader David Cameron has challenged the prime minister to do more to protect post offices.
I spent my youth opposing the Conservatives. I believed in all that tax-and-spend stuff.
Over many years of my life, I made the philosophical leap towards a small government view and the power of the […]
Most New Nurses Still Job Hunting
Of the 507 newly-qualified nurses questioned by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), 71% were still searching for a job at the starting level.
Hasn’t the mantra until recently been that there’s shortages (of beds - which really means people looking after beds) and so we needed to train a […]
Sometimes, they just don’t come around much. More often, I just miss them before they appear.
Spiritualized
Goldfrapp
Garbage
Kraftwerk
Yello (who also have a brilliant new album called The Eye).
Abba (like that’s ever going to happen).
Elvis (no, the other one).
Radiohead
REM
Muse
Tony Bennett
Duran Duran
Air
Underworld
Pearl Jam
Massive Attack
PJ Harvey
John Cooper Clarke (known as the punk poet, so I’ll include him). He supports […]
Alan Drew over at Daily Propaganda has written a really excellent article about the G-Wiz car, viewing it in it’s totality of environmental effects, not just the localised impact.
Then again, it’s not much different from the trick pulled with the "free" NHS.
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Post Office Closures
The government says the 800 smallest post offices in the UK are used by an average of 16 people a week and that the rural network is currently supported by an annual subsidy of £150m.
Anyone like to hazard a guess at the subsidy per customer? I’ll bet it’s even more than the subsidy […]
I’m off to see a couple of bands in the next few weeks. One of them, The Piney Gir Country Roadshow is quite open about their music, and have a few MP3s available for download at 3hive. Personally, I like Greetings, Salutations, Goodbyes. There’s also more on emusic.
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More from Radio 4 PM. Sion Simon said that if Cameron was offended, he’d remove the video.
Pull a video of a Labour MP embarrassing himself and his party in a lame attempt at satire? I don’t think so. Maybe Cameron could mix it up in a similar way to that whole Eamon/Frankee thing?
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I’ve read the specs for the new Nokia N95 (they call it a multimedia computer, not a phone). I don’t normally take much interest in phones, but there’s just so much in this new device.
Phone.
Camera. But with a 5MP lens which might mean you’ll be less tempted to also take a camera with you.
GPS (Global […]
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