by nabidana | Dec 29, 2009 | commerce and trade, Diplomacy, Hoons, politics
The execution today by the People’s Republic of China of a man with apparently obvious mental illness for drug trafficking should be met by the UK with a diplomatic response. Summoning the Chinese ambassador to the Foreign and Commonwealth office is not...
by nabidana | Aug 24, 2009 | commerce and trade
I’m coming back to the ongoing discussion with Thomas Byrne on the rationale for public funding for education. He has been responding int he comments to the blog, but I think the points he raises are interesting and level headed, so they deserved a good...
by nabidana | Aug 23, 2009 | commerce and trade
Libertarian Tory blogger Thomas Byrne makes some arguments recently on his blog, then debated on Twitter, about the desirability or not of state funding of University. I don’t ever do this, but as a fellow Conservative, I am sure he won’t have a problem...
by nabidana | Jul 11, 2009 | commerce and trade, unstupidity
Little to say about this wonderful new take on the inflight safety video, except the obvious comment that, if it makes people look at the video and stop irritatingly talking through the safety announcements, flights will be more beautiful things. Pity one can’t...
by nabidana | May 14, 2009 | commerce and trade, politics, stupidity, technology
Britain now hates all its elected representatives, considers them all cheating scum and wants to see them suffer. That’s the impression one gets reading the blogs and public comments. The reality is, we are pissed with our MPs and want them to go straight; this...
by nabidana | May 3, 2009 | commerce and trade, gadgets, Hoons, stupidity, technology, unstupidity
Actually, this is completely true; in the firmware beta release for iPhone OS 3 there were product codes for an item ‘iFPGA’ and another ‘iProd’, meaning that devices with these designations were probably being worked on at the time of the...
