Hurrah. In the days and weeks to come all sorts of information about the mission to capture/kill (or was it only the latter?) will gush out. It is already clear that the Americans had been painstakingly trying to get to Bin Laden via his main communication trail, namely a highly trusted […]
With so many awful things happening in the world, why o why do UK sports commentators have to add to our woe by their utter inability to pronounce the simple name of the Polish goal-keeper playing for Arsenal? His name is Wojciech Tomasz Szcz
Archbishop Cranmer surpassed himself today with a gracious and thoughtful piece about the Royal Wedding, to the point of being quoted on Sky TV. Thus: The occasion brings to mind that on 28th May 1533, His Grace declared the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to be good and […]
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 […]
Er – worse than expected by whom, I wonder? It’s now not about whether, but when Greece will ‘restructure’ its debts. With a good dash of ‘how’ thrown in. Check out Morningstar which by some chance is very much unrelated to the dull British communist newspaper of the same name. In […]
We have returned from Florida and I am emerging from jet-lag, just in time to appear today on the BBC World Have Your Say radio programme this afternoon on the rather incoherent subject of Privacy. If you are interested the link to the programme is here, until it fades away. I […]
What is a financial bubble? Too many people believing in their own cleverness as the structures they create slowly but surely depart from reality. Here is Michael Jennings at Samizdata musing on the comparison between the telecoms sector overcapacity bubble of a few years ago and the current plight of […]
In case anyone is still following this blog, yes, I am alive and sweltering on the Florida Atlantic coast. Pelicans flap lazily overhead. The sound of the sea swell is annoyingly loud in our hotel room. The plastic surgery and caked fake suntan make-up on TV religious and other presenters have […]
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 […]
How far is it reasonable to expect diplomats to predict radical developments in their host countries? And what if they do predict them wisely and well – but no-one back home wants to listen? The full gory story is in the latest issue of DIPLOMAT: There are less dramatic examples. […]
