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I never would have predicted a Conservative / Liberal Democrat alliance. Does that mean we are a Con-Dem-Nation? Well, what interesting times we live in – a Liberal Democrat as deputy prime minister! I feel positive about the outcome and I think we have...
This is the voting position taken from the BBC web site as at 12:45am, Friday 7th May 2010. Not all counts had been declared, there were still 25 to go. Look at the number of seats vs. percentage of the popular vote: Party Votes % Popular Vote Seats ...
Many people in the UK feel disengaged from the political process, now more than at any time I can remember. For those people, it is tempting to think that their vote makes no difference, that is is just not worth bothering to turn up. But they are so...
The gloves are off between Google and Microsoft, with Google announcing availability of a tool to migrate from Exchange Server to Google Apps. The problem is, Google Apps is a ‘cloud service’. Lately, I’ve been badly let down by some cloud services, so...
So, it begins. Here is our opportunity to change our country for the better. Time to nail colours to the mast, to vote on who we want to lead the country, to lead us out of recession. I firmly believe that we need more than just a change of leadership...
Labour’s Digital Economy bill is strangling creativity and criminalizing internet users. They don’t understand the new digital ecosystem and they don’t understand that the game is changing; has already changed. Quoting Tom Beardshaw : In the most ludicrous...
We use BE Unlimited as our broadband provider of choice. They are faster and cheaper than most of the competition and I’ve been blown away by the quality and helpfulness of their customer service. We live in semi-rural Wales, yet we get 24Mbps downstream...
On my journey to and from the office yesterday, I had my Zune with me and I was listening to one of may favourite podcasts, Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman . Scott is a technologist and web developer working for Microsoft, he is one of the ‘gang of four...
I’ve written several times on why I think free software is harmful ( Open Source or Microsoft ; The Zen of Free ; Free Software: Good vs. Evil ?). The unfortunate precedent of giving things away for free on the Internet can result in a race to the bottom...
So many people buy the very cheapest add-ons for their computer, or just buy the first thing they see on the shelves. Let me tell you, there is a lot of nasty rubbish out there. It all looks good in the box, but when you get it home and plug it in, things...
Well, at least not paper ones. My colleague Richard Tubb covers some of the reasons that I agree with completely. I haven’t sent Christmas Cards for a lot longer than Richard, though, so I’m not going to get away with his ‘Internet’ explanation. It’s...
Real musical talent is hard to find these days amongst the commercial mush being churned out by the record industry. My favourite roots band, Show of Hands stands out for me as an example of everything that’s good about music. Their latest song "Arrogance...
I am of course referring to the Severn crossings, one of the most expensive toll crossings in the UK. On the South Wales Businesses group that I run on LinkedIn, one member was outraged to learn that the government has decided to subsidise the Humber...
Remember a while back I was having a dig at Multimap , aka Bing Maps? One of my main criticisms was that the map area was too small compared to the advertisements. Guess what happened? Then Now Well, that’s a bit better. Now how about those very annoying...
Why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why? There are so many natural highs, so many things to do, things to try, things to learn. What is the fascination with drugs? Why is drug taking so prevalent in our youth culture? When so-called ‘legal...
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