An interesting comment in this whole Iceland Banks Problem (via the BBC):-
Millions of pounds invested in troubled Icelandic banks by local authorities in Sussex and Surrey will not affect frontline services, councils have said.
If I were a council tax payer in those authorities, I’d like them to explain that. The money spent on councils should […]
So, the government is now going to take a controlling share in RBS. This plan seems to be more prone to catastrophe than those that have gone before. The central points of the plan seem to be:-
Government doesn’t want to run a bank.
Board members not to get bonuses this year.
“remuneration will be based on performance […]
I’m not particularly good at drawing, and drawing with an icing nozzle is even more difficult. Tonight, I was fairly pleased with a “Happy Birthday” that I wrote on a cake, but then I saw this super-detailed Super Mario Wedding Cake.
Back to the software development…
Armed Forces Personnel Data Missing (From The Scotsman)
LONDON (Reuters) - The Ministry of Defence said on Friday it was investigating the loss of a portable hard drive used for storing personal information of armed forces staff.
The drive contained the private details of 100,000 Army, Navy and Royal Air Force personnel — around half the armed […]
It’s not normal for me to link to anything in the Daily Mail, but this article stood out for me on the subject of temporomandibular joint pain dysfunction syndrome or TMD.
I suffered from this for a year or more after my dentist failed to think it had anything to do with some dental work (despite […]
I don’t do a whole lot of pointing to other bloggers, but some special commendations are due to a couple of bloggers over the house price/bank bailout situation.
Firstly, to Mark Wadsworth who seems to be almost full time on this topic at the moment and who is demonstrating far more depth on the subject than […]
Robert Rodriguez is the director of hits such as Desperado, Once Upon a Time In Mexico, Sin City and Spy Kids. But he established himself with a $7,000 movie called El Mariachi which was released in the early 90s.
El Mariachi doesn’t have the highest production values, but it’s a fun film. And that’s all that […]
I decided to finally get round to checking out Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky’s new project, Stack Overflow, which is like a programmer Q&A forum.
The way to log in to Stack Overflow is using something called Open ID. The general idea is that rather than having dozens of different logins for dozens of different sites, […]
There are two stories this week on the subject of “citizen journalism” which have a common thread.
First up, there’s this story in the Telegraph about Disney using IMDB quotes for one of it’s movies. Jason Solomons, probably one of the UK’s best film reviewers is concerned about it:-
These online postings are unreliable. […]
From The BBC:-
A man who took a photograph of an ill woman outside an Edinburgh bar has been fined £100 after being branded “unchivalrous” by a sheriff.
Unchivalrous? We’re going to bring chivalry into the law, are we? Can we also start rounding up cads and bounders, too?
But Sheriff Kenneth Hogg said the matter “could be […]
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