Caprica 90210
I am an enormous fan of the re-visioning of 'Battlestar Galactica' - good story and plot, good characters, nice combination of high tech and retro gadgets (loved the old style telephone handset that w…
Shock Doctrine comes to Haiti?
A couple of years ago Naomi Klein wrote a fascinating - and scary - book called'Shock Doctrine' in which she presented the thesis that what we now call 'free market capitalism' - that form of capitali…
If this is being a Man, I bagsy being a Penguin...
I have a thing for penguins. I have no idea why, but they appeal to me. It all started 20 odd years ago when I saw the 'Bloom County' cartoon strip that featured Opus the penguin (he who features wh…
Dumb beyond reason - Children's Commissioner suggests raising English Age of Criminality
Regular readers of this blog will realise that there are certain hobby horses that I have. One is that I ask for little from Government except that they do what only Governments CAN and SHOULD do, an…
I want to use Ubuntu on a laptop...but....
Many, many moons ago, and I mean in the last century, I had a version of Linux running on one of my PCs, and lo, it was good. If you liked command lines and stuff like that, as the PC concerned wasn'…
Blogger or marketer - your choice.
I encounteredthis article in my Twitter feed today, and to be honest it bought a lump to my throat. No, not that good sort of lump - the sort that makes you want to run for the bathroom. Let me start…
It's for our own good....
And I'm sure that Twitter will not be doing anything else - at least not yet - https://joepritchard.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Twitter.pngwith their code when they're making the Twittersphere sa…
Your email address CAN be harvested from Facebook...a heads up!
Or...yet another reason to watch who you befriend.... Facebook attempts to be what's known in the online world as a 'Closed Garden' - interactions with the rest of the Internet are restricted somewhat…
The further perils of real time search...
A short while ago I wrote a couple of posts about the issues around Real time Search (How important is Real Time Searchand Google and the Dead Past) - that is, Internet based searches that include Int…
Just for today...
This is something I came across many moons ago, and is one of the most useful 'secular prayers' that I've ever come across. It originated with Alcoholics Anonymous and it's a most useful approach to …