Mike, the person behind politicalbetting.com, is also a 'major gifts fundraiser' and recently posted that Blair was selling peerages too cheaply – apparently it costs £5m+ to get an honourary degree from Oxbridge. But it's worse than that: if the … Continue reading
Work colleagues were looking at me (even more) strangely following my running commentary on the World at One interview with Gulam Noon about the issue of Labour donors getting peerages and knighthoods (just as Tory ones do). On radio, no-one … Continue reading
One of the things I did in Prague – more info shortly, promise – was buy a really cheap copy of River Crossing (called 'Crocodile [something]' there). And being the sort of person whose response to Sudoku was to write … Continue reading
The very wonderful telesales 'counterscript' is currently flavour of the week with newspapers in the UK. They've all had articles about this exciting new way to fight back. Why now? This 'story' is at least three years old! I know … Continue reading
But they've managed to sink to new depths. Today's front page: A SECOND LIMP-DEM CONFESSES: I'M GAY TOO [..] In an exclusive admission to The Sun, he apologised for twice denying he is homosexual. He told me at his Westminster … Continue reading
The woman co-presenting Today saying, just before seven, that Simon Hughes' (finally) coming out about having had both female and male partners means that he's "gay".
I know about the basic rule of computing: never be the first to try something radically new. Let someone else sort out the bugs. But the 64-bit version of Windows XP has been out for about nine months now. You'd … Continue reading
I needed to write a quick program to extract some data from a binary file today, so I reached for Borland Pascal 7. The actual program took a couple of minutes to get right… most of it because of a … Continue reading
From the British Medical Journal: "It took years, a lobby, undesired publicity, and a godsend (two tablets of sildenafil 25 mg) to obtain our images." A 'may not be entirely work safe link for some' on the results of couples … Continue reading
It used to be a 486 – the 33 MHz version I paid about £100 for in the late 80s, not long after Intel brought out the 486/50 and the price of the 486/33 dropped. It was the first CPU … Continue reading