by Tom | Apr 9, 2010 | Business, Government
Protecting creativity: Copyright and wrong. Good to see that the organ of the free market is recognising the chilling effects of automatic, high-punishment copyright terms. Can’t see anyone changing this, given the absurdly high profile of the creative...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2010 | Government, Personal
So we’re off for a general election. Journalists are delighted because 1) they can see a month’s worth of reasonable-to-good headlines and 2) that they can genuinely influence the political process thanks to exposing gaffes, slip-ups and spin and changing...
by Tom | Mar 24, 2010 | Government
Interesting to see Cameron fail to throw a mug when thrown by questioning. Thanks to the Indy, we’ll all be skipping ahead to 1:57. Really not his finest hour, but he does get back to something like normal in the end.
by Tom | Mar 23, 2010 | Government, Personal
Useful to get a view on candidates before the election is even called.
by Tom | Mar 19, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading
Apparently digital piracy has destroyed 2.7m jobs in Europe. Lots of assumptions in the model they are using, so we must take it with a pinch of salt. The £200m each year the government is wasting on reorganisation is definitely destructive.Final word: as the Mash...
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading, Science, Tech
Checklists in surgery should be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be used.
