Jim Lacey at NRO: Despite the fact that our special forces were on the ground only 40 minutes, I assume that they did not leave the compound before emptying it of everything of intelligence value. It will be interesting, therefore, to see if Osama’s movements over the past ten years […]
Yesterday I had a white panic when my beloved PowerPoint presentations started to report being ‘corrupted’. Luckily for me Luke of MissionTcomputers of Witney was on hand to come round to the house within a few minutes to fix everything and spring-clean the system. Turns out that a recent Microsoft security […]
I like the Nuance Dragon Voice Recognition software. But whereas the PC version via Nuance costs £59.99 via their own site, the iMac version costs £179.99. So I asked Nuance about this gruesome price difference for different systems, and got this ludicrous reply: Dear Charles Crawford, Thank you for contacting Nuance […]
If you haven’t read this superlative and yet creepy article about the lushly irradiated wildlife around Chernobyl, do so now: On the surface, Igor says, the wildlife seems to be thriving, but under the fur and hide, the DNA of most species has become unstable. They’ve eaten a lot of […]
Umair Haque at the Harvard Business Review says a lot which chimes with my own thinking on the fact that in almost any policy area you choose, the main problem is the over-heavy institutional legacy of industrial-age organisation: What stands in the way of the future, most often, is the past. […]
I have not had anything to say so far on the Alternative Voting referendum here on 5 May. Which is fine, since Brendan O’Neill at spiked says what I more or less intuit about the whole business: Which political party will risk standing a hardcore individual – a deep-blue Tory or […]
Middle East not scary enough for you? Try this magnificent analysis by Thomas Benton of precisely why US undergraduates are now locked in to a cycle of lame underperformance and associated petulance when their failings are pointed out to them: Increasingly, undergraduates are not prepared adequately in any academic area […]
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is upset: At every level, still, even in the West, women are invisible, neglected, kept down, slighted, patronised, objectified, denied and demeaned in everyday life. Hmm. Here is a woman making a nice living writing for one of the world’s more prominent newspapers, complaining about her own performance […]
Is fluttering in your general direction. Keep your curtains and ventilator shafts firmly closed.
A nice article at the Guardian about how people have fallen in love on the train. I was told a true story about a Serbian girl who came to London and ended up commuting to work on the train. She saw a man in a City outfit (smart suit, bowler […]
