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Kestrel rescue at Downing Street!

Cute, but not quite what I was expecting. Where’s the rescue then?

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This is sort of the second half to the earlier Microsoft post, where I was rambling on about people running lightweight operating systems on lightweight computers, and only requiring lightweight applications delivered through a browser.
I’m reminded of the Network Computer, or NC, something that a consortium of manufacturers and the database company Oracle tried to […]

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Blimey.
All Fox News wanted to do was have a sensible, informed discussion about the death of Heath Ledger, and guest Montel Williams has to spoil it all by mentioning the fact that 28 US troops had died in Iraq since the beginning of the month, and asking why we aren’t talking about them instead.
Under several […]

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After lots of work and a couple of nights out, what I could really do with today is taking it easy, but something in this story about Gordon Brown’s visit to China made me choke on my toast and Marmite:
Mr Brown has also offered China £50m to help the country tackle climate change.
Hello?
I don’t meant […]

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Another campaigner outside the Brighton Centre this morning, this time with a placard:
Jesus is the only saviour for sin and all it’s consequences
Now I don’t mean to come over all Lynne Truss*, but if there’s one way to get your message across it isn’t with an errant apostrophe.

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Well, it nearly did.
At first glance, this morning’s immigration headlines suggested the LibDems had successfully got their conference agenda into the news. Alas not; a chief constable’s Radio 4 interview appears to have generated at least as much coverage as the party’s immigration amnesty vote.
Anyway, a consequence of living in Brighton is the regular attendance […]

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On the subject of Wikipedia and changes, am I the only person who isn’t especially exercised about the current Wikipedia sanitation furore? Perhaps I’m just a naturally cynical person: does it really surprise anyone that people and corporations are inclined to massage the entries about themselves in a publicly accessible encyclopedia?
I’m reminded of the uneasy […]

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