January: PC Pro talks about Microsoft being the 'partner' digitising the entire 19th Century stock of the British Library – "Microsoft and Google have both been digitising books from US libraries and adding them to their rival online services for … Continue reading
Found during a search for something else… "We do hate to rain on a high-profile corporate love-fest, but we have to point out that in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has donated to India's fight against HIV, … Continue reading
I don't think I've spotted this on the UK bits of my friends list: the producers of Expelled, the bilge of a film about how 'intelligent design' is being cruelly treated by people with a brain, paid someone to do … Continue reading
I mentioned the long-standing dispute between the UK tax authorities and a retailer of teacakes back in 2005. At that point, it had been going on for over a decade and was heading off to the European Court of Justice. … Continue reading
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I've been trying this out and, thanks to them giving me two weeks free rather than one month, crept over into the paying for it time. Now, I started off on an 'unlimited' plan, in this case giving me one … Continue reading
The announcements and posters at DLR stations today said something along the lines of "services will be suspended between Bank/Tower Gateway and Poplar/Canary Wharf stations on Saturday & Sunday and between Stratford and Canary Wharf stations on Sunday". … Continue reading
As regular readers will (both) know, I've been recommending the Sansa e280 as a great alternative to the iPod nano et al. L recently lost hers, so we got another one, and … Continue reading
Well, the appeal was posted, via what the Royal Mail now call 'Recorded Signed For™' in the first week of February. It still has not, according to their website's Track and Trace page, been delivered. This is odd, because they're … Continue reading