Monthly Archives: March 2009

Brawn GP one-two at Aussie GP

The newly-founded Brawn GP F1 team – raised from the ashes of Honda – was taken by Button and Barrichello to first and second places in the Melbourne circuit. Button led the race from the off, and drove the new car well and without incident to the finish. He wasn’t severly challenged at any point [...]

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Earth Hour

One of the protests this week is Earth Hour, where citizens of the world are asked to turn off their lights for an hour at 8:30pm local time. Earth Hour is about global warming. Today it does not feel very warm here, I must say. Another protest today is a march from Embankment to Hyde [...]

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Canon announce 500D digital SLR

Canon have announced the launch (due in May) of the 500D Digital SLR camera. This looks like a tasty bit of camera. It has Full HD movie capability, with a 15MP sensor, live view, and all the other gubbins. In fact, you have to question where the 50D sits with this beast out there. (The [...]

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Baby one-up-manship and Google privacy

So what have we had this week? I’m still working on my new plugin, so I won’t be ready to release that just yet unless I really get a crack on. But as we all know 90% of IT projects come in late and overbuget so this is no exception. In baby news, we Brits [...]

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Hewitt pushing assisted suicide law change

Patricia Hewitt the ex-Health Secretary has put forward a motion for MPs to debate a change to the law that would allow people to legally take others abroad to die. The motion is not expected to succeed. I think that’s unfortunate. We need European cohesion on this subject, because at the moment we’re in the [...]

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