by Tom | Apr 12, 2010 | Government, Reading
Unsurprisingly, Jeremy Corbyn comes out as very liberal indeed.
by Tom | Apr 12, 2010 | Reading
Apparently we don’t have much in Islington North.
by Tom | Apr 9, 2010 | IT
Stream Video Player appears to work nicely, after some digging through the instructions. I ended up using Riva encoder to convert the .DV file I was given to a high quality .flv file for the plugin to use. [Update: to convert a .mov file to .flv, I used WinFF...
by Tom | Apr 9, 2010 | IT
I’ve been wanting to find an Android My Mobile since I got the Hero, and I’ve found Android Screen Cast that works well enough to use regularly. I’ve donated to the project.Not entirely simple for the novice, but in summary youDownload the Android...
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 9, 2010 | IT
It must be increasingly hard to build a stand out website thanks to the availability of clever tools such as Wingify which helps anyone do fairly sophisticated web optimisation and alternative version testing. At a price, of course, but the value should be pretty...
by Tom | Apr 9, 2010 | Business
While the article can feel a little gushing, on reflection, I think there is some truth in this:While others think entrepreneurs are taking risks, entrepreneurs don’t see it that way because they have thought things through extremely well. They also believe in their...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2010 | Personal, Science
The restriction granted by the BRCA1 gene patent covers essentially everyone. Hopefully this ridiculosity will help overturn other gene patents. How does a string of nucleotides extant in the human body count as a process, design or new invention?I wonder if Ben...
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 29, 2010 | Reading
Lorks: people are sailing off with Indonesian islands. 24 since 2005. And who knew that the Child of Krakatoa is rising at 1cm each day?
