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Technology
Dare to think and change the world - Arthur C. Clarke tribute
Thursday, 20 March 2008 4:02 A GMT+01
Each mind developed on the thoughts of another mind till the reality changed the world forever. A tribute at the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke
The faucet apothecary
Monday, 10 March 2008 12:41 A GMT+01
One city in the States reveals that there are up to 56 pharmaceuticals and their derivatives in tap water.
Traces that would affect no one till you start to think of homoeopathy for which you will need a glass of water to handle your anxiety.
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Blockbuster snake-oil anti-depressant drugs
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 4:14 P GMT+01
The drugs for managing depression might just cause more depression when we realise that we are being given pills that could well be placebos to make us feel better for a huge price.
YouTube versus Islam - Between discernment and ignorance
Tuesday, 26 February 2008 5:54 A GMT+01
When Pakistan banned access to YouTube to avoid access to content that might be offensive to Islam the blocked global access to the site.
I fear for how the protection of religion ridicules religion even more.
Wikileaks - The right to know
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 7:44 P GMT+01
Wikileaks is a site under threat for the reason that it gives succour to the whistleblower to post documents that expose practices/activities that normally would not be revealed.
The site supports the compelling concept of the right to know.
Cult of the Frozen Cow
Monday, 18 February 2008 2:41 P GMT+01
Being spared the detail of food processing can be merciful as we learn that 64.9 kilograms of beef have to be recalled in the States - some of that beef could be two years old.
Nigeria: Governor's reputation goes up in hospital flames
Sunday, 17 February 2008 2:04 P GMT+01
A new hospital in Maiduguri completed in June 2006 had stayed closed because the state governor was waiting to get the President to cut the tape.
It has now been razed and the governor laments the loss of his reputation, he has more to lose.
Cloning: Vitually indistinguishable shit
Sunday, 20 January 2008 8:38 A GMT+01
Cloned food might be virtually indistinguishable from conventional produce but it does not give the FDA the right to not require cloned foods be specifically labelled.
Coward, the Courageous Pilot
Sunday, 20 January 2008 12:29 A GMT+01
This is like life imitating cartoons from Courage the Cowardly Dog to Coward the Courageous Man who landed a distressed airplane safely just before the runway at London Heathrow Airport last Thursday.
Boats, Threats & Videotape
Friday, 11 January 2008 7:48 P GMT+01
The boats, the threats and the videotapes from both the United States and Iran about a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz show that someone is up to no good - but who?
Out of the mouth of babes - PNG at Climate Summit
Saturday, 15 December 2007 5:24 P GMT+01
It took a stinging rebuke from Kevin Conrad of Papua New Guinea to the United States on the latter of leadership a consensus to emerge at the climate change summit.
Words of Mean Dithering (WMD)
Wednesday, 5 December 2007 12:21 A GMT+01
The WMD issue is now not so much a threat since a WMD report leaves us with no WMD but other WMDs when we should be resolving issues with WMD.
Quadriga lags the valve badly
Friday, 30 November 2007 10:00 P GMT+01
Since hotels I stay in gave up the simple television technology for Quadriga's digital revolution my patience has been tested with menu-hopping and channel seeking without getting a picture for minutes on end.
Child Benefit repercussions are decades away
Monday, 26 November 2007 2:05 A GMT+01
The Child Benefit data loss scandal in the UK has ramifications further down the line where the immutability of some data-sets can be used decades from now.
Techies have kids too
Saturday, 17 November 2007 5:04 A GMT+01
The last day at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum.
The Vista from my Windows
Friday, 16 November 2007 1:20 P GMT+01
Update on Day four and why I would be installing Windows Vista when I get back home.
Skirting the issue
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 12:24 A GMT+01
Update on Day Two at the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum
Beating the hands in Barcelona
Monday, 12 November 2007 8:31 P GMT+01
My first day at the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona was quite good fun.
Nigeria takes Big Tobacco to court about kids
Wednesday, 7 November 2007 7:17 P GMT+01
Nigeria is suing international cigarette companies on their complicity in allowing their cigarettes to fall into the hands of children.
They do have a cause, but maybe not a case.
The Blood Transfusion con claims another life
Monday, 5 November 2007 5:29 P GMT+01
A church teaching against blood transfusion leaves newly born twins bereft of their mother all in service to some religious belief based on the interpretation of other mere men.
At peace with the Nobel Peace Prize
Friday, 19 October 2007 4:19 P GMT+01
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 goes to worthy recipients for their work to stirring us to consider the consequences of man-made climate change. The science would continually be under review, it is left to us to research those opinions.
Me and Ms Dope (Jones)
Sunday, 7 October 2007 12:15 A GMT+01
The spectre of drugs in sport is disturbing, but the anti-doping regime is not winning this battle - Marion Jones was never caught, rather she confessed because of other extenuate circumstances.
Coming out of it a human-doing
Friday, 5 October 2007 2:22 P GMT+01
The need to gain focus and start doing something to be myself better is compelling.
$6Billion to keep youth in Africa with boring and farming
Wednesday, 22 August 2007 5:53 P GMT+01
$6 Billion is earmarked to encourage the youth to stay in West Africa rather than emigrate to the West with boring holes and farming. I think not!
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