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The RBC’s James Wimberley posts on one of those wonderful “competitiveness surveys” rightwing people like. Apparently the US has fallen from 1st to 6th, which would be important if it meant anything. Wimberley did a more formal and scientific version of this old post of mine, in which I plotted GDP growth rates and rankings [...]

Celtel terminates its roaming charges between East African markets. Now, SMS credit transfer is a currency acceptable across East Africa. How long before this is recognised? How long before more operators start interworking? GSM airtime - the African single currency. You heard it here first.

Apparently an offshoot of SETI is getting tired of waiting - they want to send, not receive. Quite a lot of their pals disagree. The result is a hell of a thread. Curiously, it’s the Russians who are keenest on howling into the void to see if anyone howls back. The questions are spectacular, not [...]

The RBC’s James Wimberley posts on one of those wonderful “competitiveness surveys” rightwing people like. Apparently the US has fallen from 1st to 6th, which would be important if it meant anything. Wimberley did a more formal and scientific version of this old post of mine, in which I plotted GDP growth rates and rankings [...]

So Dave from PR’s got a vlog, then. Well, that’s only realistically going to be crap, isn’t it? It almost amounts to a definition of blogging that, if you issue a press release to the nationals before you start, that’s not it.
May I recommend, instead, one of many fine British blogs? Daniel “Dsquared” Davies on [...]

Everyone is talking about this New Statesman story in which so-and-so visits Westminster Council’s CCTV surveillance control centre, which rather wonderfully turns out to be situated in the bowels of the dire Trocadero on Wardour Street. Apparently we have 20 per cent of world CCTV capability in Britain. But it was this response at [...]

This is the full text of John Reid’s speech to the Labour Party Conference. In it, Reid states unequivocally that he does not believe that the State should be subject to law.
And let’s be clear. It cannot be right that the rights of an individual suspected terrorist be placed above the rights, life and limb [...]

Apparently an offshoot of SETI is getting tired of waiting - they want to send, not receive. Quite a lot of their pals disagree. The result is a hell of a thread. Curiously, it’s the Russians who are keenest on howling into the void to see if anyone howls back. The questions are spectacular, not [...]

So Dave from PR’s got a vlog, then. Well, that’s only realistically going to be crap, isn’t it? It almost amounts to a definition of blogging that, if you issue a press release to the nationals before you start, that’s not it.
May I recommend, instead, one of many fine British blogs? Daniel “Dsquared” Davies on [...]

Everyone is talking about this New Statesman story in which so-and-so visits Westminster Council’s CCTV surveillance control centre, which rather wonderfully turns out to be situated in the bowels of the dire Trocadero on Wardour Street. Apparently we have 20 per cent of world CCTV capability in Britain. But it was this response at [...]