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- Where I Have Been 4:45am Dec 31|1 Comment
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- Government Announces New Gravity/Amusement Initiative 12:43am Dec 15
Mrs H and I have been on holiday. It was awesome. And I now know how to say “where is the elephant?” in Thai. Also, I fired a real gun for the first time in my life. (I am confirmed in my opinion regarding firearms: they’re horrible. This...
News I Did Not Entirely Make Up. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, announced a controversial new initiative today in relation to the alleged complicity in torture of British officials and politicians...
That’s the full stop at the end of the first draft of the new book. I feel… Amazing. Lots of work still to do. It’s not ready for anyone actually to read yet or anything. But still. :)
The English language has no word which is specifically a contradiction. If we want to argue with a statement, we say “no, it’s not” or “yes, it is” or even “on the contrary”. The German language has “doch“. So for example: A: Well, I’m not paying for this. B: Doch. (”Oh, yes, you are...
In haste – DRM study concludes: Thus anticircumvention-backed DRM frustrates lawful use and the creation of new technology products with out saving the entertainment companies from the uncompensated reproduction they feared. ...
[London Taxi image by David Iliff under GNU Free Documentation License] News I Made Up London, December 8th Sir John Scarlett, former head of the JIC and MI6, confirmed today that the controversial 45 Minute Claim in the so-called ‘dodgy dossier‘ was the product of long conversations in the bac...
Three little fragments of what my new book looks like as I write it… (Don’t worry – they won’t tell you anything very spoilerish. Well, ...
Briefly, two things: 1. the scientists in the UAE/Climategate thing committed the fundamental email sin: they wrote in emails things they would not say on a postcard. Well all do it. We should not. Annoying though it is, we should encrypt, because email has a sense of privacy which is utterly false...
I haz tumblr. I don’t know whether I’ll use it yet. What do other people use it for? Fr...
Taking a few seconds out from the rush to finish the new book… Why? Because of this. I know that the majority of the people who read these pagesare persuaded that Climate Change is a real issue. I also know that I will have very little luck changing the opinions of those who are not. ...
#iraqinquiry 2: This Time It’s Arsenal (We join the conversation several minutes in, with the discussion chaired by Raymond Fisket Trout, formerly of the Mesopotamia Desk, MI6, and Sir Stephen Piddlehinton, former Under-Secretary for Arabian Relations under Margaret Thatcher) Sir Gregory Bufton H...
Yes, that’s the Hindenburg, and no, I do not believe it’s all over for bookshops. It does appear, however, that Borders has crashed again, only a few months after being rescued, and the flesh-and-blood booktrade is apparently losing money hand over fist to the online shops. On...
Hmm. I didn’t really have much time to watch today, what with trying to finish the new novel and so on. However, what I did see seemed unduly collegial. ...
Digital divide over filesharing plans Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners (It’s from the Guardian, by the way.) From my perspective, of course, the failure to include the term #batshit is a major failing, but that’s not wha...
Looking at #batshit in the wider context… On Thursday I waxed somewhat wrathful over the government’s plans for the creation of a #Batshit Tsar and Lord Voldemort’s Mandelson’s plans for copyright in the digital age. It was...
