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February 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Society, Website, WordPress.
Would you Adam and Eve it, we’re at number 2 in the BritBlog top 50. Cor blimey! Love a duck! More…
January 23rd, 2006, by Rich, in Politics, Science.
Nuclear Energy is neither carbon-free, nor is it a secure energy, yet our government representatives appear to be drinking in everthing the Nuclear Industry offers them.
This morning on the BBC’s Breakfast Television programme we were treated to an interview with Alan Johnson MP, the Trade and Industry Secretary. The interview follows coverage of the the announcement that the government has ordered the Health and Safety Executive to assess all UK nuclear reactors. More…
December 7th, 2005, by Rich, in Silly, Society, Tech.
Channel 4 will tonight air the first of ten programmes that amount to one of the largest television hoaxes of all time. Participants in the Space Cadets programme are a group of would-be astronauts who believe they have been flown to Russia, and that they will soon become space tourists, all in the name of television. More…
December 1st, 2005, by Rich, in Politics, Science, Society.
For me, the arguments against nuclear power-plants in their current form are overwhelming; the most significant of these being the collapse of the “nuclear is clean” argument (because of the apparent hidden CO2 costs of preparing the enriched uranium). More…
November 20th, 2005, by Rich, in Google, Society.
I’m going to stick my neck out and make a prediction. I was thinking around the subject of Google Analytics just now, considering the increased information that Google now have. It’s a short leap of faith to guess that Google will use the data that Google Analytics provides in order to improve or reinforce their PageRank algorithm, and I’m sure most people have twigged that by now. To suggest that would be to make the mistake of thinking Google is still a search company. More…
November 9th, 2005, by Rich, in Politics, Religion, Silly.
I cannot let the landmark events in Kansas go by without a mention. The Kansas Board of Education have introduced Intelligent Design into the curriculum. More…
October 22nd, 2005, by Rich, in Society.
Bird Flu has reached Britain; smuggled in by a parrot who’s been living in quarantine for a few months. The quarantine is such that even the air is filtered, so there’s no threat to the public, but that’s not stopped the tabloid papers and 24 hour news channels from reporting it at length. It’s a media frenzy. More…
October 13th, 2005, by Rich, in Nice Things, Society, Tech.
This is an an everyday lesson that I shall try to remember next time I’m at the requirements gathering phase of system design, or the next time I’m explaining to someone why common terms of reference are such an important part of Software Engineering. More…
October 6th, 2005, by Rich, in Politics, Religion.
So, George W. Bush turns to the Palestinian PM and Foreign Minister and says: “God told me to invade Afghanistan and Iraq”. More…
September 18th, 2005, by Rich, in Politics.
I’ve not seen the work of Clay Bennett before today. Beautiful drawings, with biting political observation. Well worth a read. More…
