From The Telegraph:-
“The Conservative leader launched a fierce attack on bankers who he said are failing to lend to business customers, threatening the future of many firms and jeopardising the UK economy.”
He’s said some stupid, protectionist, nannying things before, but telling the banks that they don’t know what their business is takes the biscuit.
He highlighted […]
One of the challenges of being a programmer/software designer/software architect is deciding at what point things are hard wired into a program, and at what point you make them soft.
Hard wiring is cheap, soft isn’t. Hard means directly writing a value into your code while soft means having the value stored into a database with […]
Over on Scott Guthrie’s blog, he’s reporting that Microsoft have released a bunch of free asp.net charting controls for .net 3.5. which includes pie, line, bar and area.
sweeeet…
Just watching the live Gordon Ramsay thing, and he’s got Krusty Allsop on as a guest. Presumably, he’ll be preparing that hat that she said she’d eat if house prices went down…
Has anyone else noticed that while global temperatures have gone down a little recently that there’s also been a rise in piracy?
Wasn’t that what these guys were suggesting?
At the recent Microsoft Remix 08 UK Conference, I was part of a group Photosynth trial. If you’ve not tried Photosynth, it’s a technology that takes flat 2d photographs and joins them to create a 3d animation.
I decided to try it for myself in the Old Town area of Swindon, which you can see here. […]
From Reuters:-
The U.S. election has triggered a new generation of mini Barack Obamas with parents in Kenya and the United States naming their newborns after the new president-elect.
Whilst it’s no doubt an amazing achievement for Barack Obama to be elected president of the United States, wouldn’t you actually want to see what he turns out […]
via Sky News:-
British Airways and airport operator BAA have been accused of “serious failings” over the chaotic opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5, which was branded “a national embarrassment” by a committee of MPs.
OK, Terminal 5 was a bit of a testing cockup. BA and BAA have admitted as much. But, let’s put this into context. […]
There’s an interesting article in The Times about Google producing ads for groups that wanted support for Proposition 8, a vote in California to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, with a site owner complaining that the ads could be offensive to some of their readers.
The thing is, this is always […]
Before I visited Comment is Free today, I decided to ponder on what Steve Bell’s cartoon would be. I figured that it would be a chimp caricature of George Bush being handed a P45.
I was wrong. They came up with a slightly arty photo of people queueing up to vote in the election.
However, elsewhere in […]
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