by nabidana | Feb 18, 2009 | politics, unstupidity
Gordon Brown is a klutz, a jinx, fool whose every touch turns the object touched to shit. Where Blair had a Midas-like ability to hold the faith of at least the mainstream, he has been succeeded by a man capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at every...
by nabidana | Feb 17, 2009 | gadgets
I bought and installed this, hoping it would make my browsing experience on the iPhone better, but after two uses, am not impressed. The render is slow (how and why, when it’s based on Safari?) and it scrolls incredibly slowly and jerkily, much much worse than...
by nabidana | Feb 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
I touched earlier on the feeling men get from possessing the best thing in any class of item. A man with a Bugatti Veyron, the first one to emerge from a James Bond film, someone with an iPhone: all feel varying levels of that top of the world feeling, at once...
by nabidana | Feb 17, 2009 | commerce and trade, gadgets
Part of the morning commute ritual of late has been the slightly tense moment at the platform when a man realises everybody else has his or her phone in his or her hand, deeply engaged in remote social intercourse. The look of embarrassment on his face is forced away,...
by nabidana | Feb 9, 2009 | politics, stupidity, this blog, Uncategorized
Minister for the Environment in Northern Ireland’s laughable attempt at a parliamentary democracy, Sammy Wilson MLA, has rejected a UK government advertising campaign aimed at targeting energy wastage. Wilson, who might well be considered a moron by some people,...
