Monthly Archives: March 2010

Impressive Discount

Whilst browsing batteries and chargers on Amazon, I came across this wonderful bargain – Seriously? I save over three million pounds. I love it.

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No violence for the Swiss

In a growing tradition of strange new laws, the Swiss seem to have passed a wide-ranging law that is likely to mean the banning of sales of all violent video games (where violence is harm to another creature, so potentially any game..)

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Do you know what your smartphone is doing?

Well do you? Which have issued an advisory against overseas smart phone usage, stating that you can run up huge bills unknowingly through data roaming. Now at first, I thought, well, anyone with such a phone surely knows enough about it not to do anything so stupid as overseas data roaming, but then I did [...]

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Shades Of Grey

I thought that I would give a quick mention to Shades of Grey, the latest novel by Jasper Fforde. Shades of Grey marks a new series for Fforde, departing from the book-related worlds that are his Next and Nursery sets, into a world where everything in life depends on what you can see. The world [...]

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Internet Visualisation

There’s a neat little article on Internet Visualisation on the BBC News site. It has a number of flash slides showing the most popular web sites out there (some surprises but mostly names you would know), as well as rich lists and a map of the world over time showing Internet penetration. Quite interesting. In [...]

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