via The BBC
YouTube has been criticised by MPs, who say it must do more to vet its content.
I’ll bet YouTube are pretty nervous about that, seeing how they’re an American company who I’m sure keeps their servers in the US, where they’re protected by the right to freedom of speech. Short of blocking them with […]
From The Telegraph
A wealthy Arab sent his ‘Batman’ Lamborghini on a 6,500 mile round-trip to London for an oil change - at a cost of more than £23,000.
Hasn’t he got plenty there?
Sun have released a some free (yes FREE!), open-source virtual machine software called VirtualBox.
If you don’t know what a virtual machine is, the best way to put it is that it allows you to run a machine within a machine. You start your PC then run a piece of software and then tell it to […]
Stumbled across this quite amusing blog by an estate agent…
I’m quite a fan of the Tour de France, especially when they start riding through the mountains of the alps.
Yesterday’s finish on stage 17 on Alpe d’Huez was one of the finest examples of the excitement that the race can create, where Carlos Sastre took off on a magnificent effort to win the stage and […]
I’ll try and keep this non-technical (from The Times) …
Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, The Times has learnt.
Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the […]
I have to wonder how far one could go with this:-
A Christian registrar who refused to officiate over same-sex civil partnerships has won a discrimination case that could redraw the boundaries of anti-discrimination laws.
Lillian Ladele is set to receive thousands of pounds in compensation after an industrial tribunal on Thursday ruled that Islington council unlawfully […]
Tim Worstall is setting out his stall as a UKIP candidate in this post, which I recommend. If you live in London, I suggest having a read, and maybe asking him questions.
Having read his blog for a few years, it is a paragon of intellectual thought about politics. I’d vote for him if I lived […]
Glad to see that Dr. Patrick Holmes, the brilliant dentist at Sevenfields has joined in with the blogging.
I’m not at all surprised that someone with the sort of commitment and passion for his subject as Patrick is also using some of the newest technologies to communicate.
From The Times
Work No 850 is the latest piece by Martin Creed, who has been commissioned to fill the long space known as the Duveen Galleries. For the next four months, people will sprint as fast as they can through the gallery at 30-second intervals. Fifty amateurs are each being paid £10 an hour to […]
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