by Tom | Apr 29, 2003 | Reading
There’s a gargoyle (or grotesque) of Darth Vader on Washington National Cathedral. I love this! More churches should update themselves in this manner, not hark back to some non-existent gothic vision. It’s just like Roman statues – they should be...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2003 | Personal
Ben runs a story that Denise Lewis has hired one of the creators of a massive athletic doping programme as her coach. This is a little bit worrying: a) it doesn’t sound like sensible risk management (what if DL part fails a drugs test?) and b) surely the guy...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2003 | IT
Firstgov.gov, the rather unattractively named US government gateway is finally to get a CMS. I hate to think how many people they needed to update it without a CMS. That said, it is a pure portal with very little internal content. That’s not so hard to...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2003 | Business
The global patent system is bust. It will cost anyone around $250k to register a patent across the globe. This means that the system massively discriminates against small inventors who won’t have this kind of financial muscle. Let’s go for harmonisation...
by Tom | Apr 29, 2003 | IT
Jakob asks whether plain-text ads continue to rule? His answer: not really outside search engines and classifieds. Why? Because we’re going to look for something when visiting those sites, and the text ads just make sense. When we visit a newspaper page, we may...
