Archive for October, 2009
links for 2009-10-30
Launch of the Ares I-X
More dazzling photoournalism from The Big Picture at Boston.com who do the very best news photos on the web right now. Even if you're not into space travel, these are great.
(tags: nasa space photography ares rocket bigpicture)
links for 2009-10-29
Mobile Web's Explosive Growth
iPhone Still the Top Smartphone Worldwide and Has [...]
For the last of this loose trilogy of tech-themed blog postings, I’m going to talk about having bought a backup hard disc. Yep, this is a post about backing up your hard drive: those of you with a non-geek disposition should look away now.
Yes, my final purchase this week has been a backup hard disc, [...]
(Contains some mild, non-specific but still spoiler-type comments.)
Perfectly decent action thriller, even if not a particularly memorable or outstanding one. It’s mostly likely to give rise to memories of the superior Enemy of the State (which is helpfully invoked several times in dialogue just to make it clear) but Fugitive, WarGames and Matrix are also [...]
Are Bosses Right to Ban Social Media?
Corporations take against social media for tgeir employees
(tags: socialmedia business corporate)
About five years ago, Steve Jobs memorably dismissed the idea of adding video to iPods, pointing out that while you can listen to music in the background, movies require that you actually watch them. “You can’t watch a video and drive a car,” he said. “We’re focused on music.”
This little blip in Jobs’ future-gazing [...]
Government communications chief freezes roster creation
COI spokeswoman says new rosters would only be allowed where departments could demonstrate a requirement that could not be met by an existing framework in an effort to cut costs and make procurement more streamlined.
(tags: coi procurement ukgovernment)
A little over two weeks ago, I had a moment of weakness and succumbed to a rare completely spontaneous and gratuitous purchase. Normally I take weeks to be “spontaneous” and in that time I can filter out the purely gratuitous, but this time the safety procedures failed and I ended up with a little orange [...]
links for 2009-10-02
BBC | Evening Standard to be free paper
The moment we lose one free London evening paper, another one comes along. Will it fare any better, or it is the end of the Standard – and with it, the end of London-wide journalism?
(tags: london media newspaper journalism)
links for 2009-10-01
BBC | MPs warned to avoid [...]
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- NASCAR: Round 36 – Ford 400, Homestead-Miami Speedway – 22 November November 22, 2009
- McLaren press the Button November 18, 2009
- NASCAR: Round 35 – Auto Parts 500, Phoenix International Roadway – 15 November November 15, 2009
- NASCAR: Round 34 – Dickies 500, Texas Motor Speedway – 8 November November 9, 2009
- MOTOGP: Round 17 – Valencia, Spain – 8 November November 8, 2009
- Dying A1GP cancels next two rounds November 5, 2009
- NASCAR: Round 33 – Amp Energy 500, Talladega Superspeedway – 1 November November 1, 2009
- F1: Round 17 – Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi – 1 November November 1, 2009
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