Google street has a lot of suspicion in many countries, although this does add weight to the view that the only people who should be concerned are those who are doing things wrong….
In news which proves inconvenient for those of us who believe Google’s Street View is nothing more than one tentacle of the Great Satan of Mountain View’s humanity-supressing internet beast, Dutch press reports that snoopmobile images from the all-seeing web eye have been used to collar two muggers.
Ok. how the hell will a normal person actually get a browser WITHOUT installing IE7/8 first?
European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.
Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer.
via BBC NEWS | Technology | No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe.
I have interviewed many people, and many of them had problems with the questions I have asked. Their problems usually stemmed from not having answers to the questions that are discussed in this article: 10 Answers You Should Know Before Your Job Interview – Dumb Little Man, as well as more interesting questions designed to probe their experience and knowledge beyond the point that the candidate could answer.
The best answer I have heard was to the question, “Why did you leave your last job?” – I have had many answers but the one I remember best was ‘I do not know’, from an extremely well qualified straight A’s candidate. Huge FAIL.
I have never sought a reason to eat curry other than the taste, but here is something that could really make sure that you do get a nice Balti…
Eating a curry once or twice a week could help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, a US researcher suggests.
A cloud which looks like Britain was caught on camera by a teenager.
via Cloud looks like Great Britain – Telegraph.
Well it is better than thinking they all just look like sheep!
Comic actor Dom DeLuise has died at the age of 75.
via Showbiz – News – Actor Dom DeLuise dies, aged 75 – Digital Spy.
Goodbye Captain Chaos… you will be missed.
For all those who believe Episode V is the ultimate and Episode 1 is the bottom of the gutter, but even eating from the gutter is fun – May the 4th be with you.
About 6,000 students in Norway are doing exams on their laptops in a trial that could soon be rolled out across the country.
via BBC NEWS | Technology | Norway tests laptop exam scheme.
This shows just how much things have come on since my school exams, when there was all the debate about whether calculators should be allowed, or during my Degree examinations about whether calculators with graphing capabilities should be allowed.
Wonder what it will be in 20 years time?
Following a move by Rotterdam, the mayor of Amsterdam is calling for the removal of official Moroccan Arab name list from the city hall.
via Amsterdam mayor wants to drop Moroccan name list < Local News | Expatica The Netherlands.
It is funny that the Dutch registration authorities did this with the Moroccan list, because as we registered our daughters birth in the Netherlands we were told that her name was not valid but because we were English that it would be allowed.
Our crime? we used a surname as a middle name.
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July 1, 2009
Euro Pirates of Silicon Fenn
Some of you will remember a film entitled the Pirates of Silicon Valley about the competition between Microsoft/Bill Gates and Apple/Steve Jobs in the late seventies and early eighties. Well it seems that BBC are going to make a European version regarding the giants of the UK computer scene. I wonder if it will be quite as glamourous.
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