NUTS

by | Jan 17, 2009 | Reading

It has been a long time since I’ve had to deal with Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS to its friends.Who knew that there were Bezirks in Austria, Peripheries in Greece, Oblasts in Bulgaria and Voivodeships in Poland (Volvo dealerships?)....

Getting Audio tracks from DVDs

by | Jan 16, 2009 | IT

I was given a marvellous DVD of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain for Christmas, and wanted to get the audio tracks off on to my iPod, along with the superb Glyndebourne Theodora (which I recently bought on DVD). Neither has a CD version, and I though that given...

Game theory and SATs

by | Jan 13, 2009 | Uncategorized

Game theory and SATs. Can you work out the answer for a multiple choice test question without the question? The likely topic is relatively clear and then you should work out what the likely wrong answers are. On my first scan I didn´t even notice the odd man...

Game theory and SATs

by | Jan 12, 2009 | Science

Game theory and SATs. Can you work out the answer for a multiple choice test question without the question? The likely topic is relatively clear and then you should work out what the likely wrong answers are. On my first scan I didn’t even notice the odd man...

Government procurement

by | Jan 5, 2009 | Uncategorized

A Chill on The Guardian looks at the increasingly tricky environment in which investigative journalism operates. In this case the Guardian got it wrong the first time and then was helped by Private Eye following up. The scale of costs involved suggests that...

Pseudo names

by | Jan 5, 2009 | Reading

In common with many others, we are loving Pseudo Names in Private Eye. My favourite to date is this one:Sir,We believe that this column has gone as far as it can.ANNE DANNOWD.N. DISNEREANNE-ZOE IPHASEDEE FEIN-AL-KHURTANJust brilliant.My contribution (thanks to Wiffy,...