Toblog

Gordon Brown’s latest Americanism: the Shrum speech

Good Samaritan arrested at roadside

Greater Shakespeare Tube Map

Boris Johnson is Tory London Mayor Candidate

Shock at archbishop condom claim

Dollar falls to another Euro low

Shipping Forecast’s ‘baffling’ legacy

Nick Drew on how Gordon’s blatent borrowing against the future and off balance sheet shenanigans are slowly coming home to roost

The Usmanov Affair hits Slashdot

Michael Robertson on why AnywhereCD failed

Microsoft to buy minority stake in facebook

Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones ‘permanently inoperable’
... or: Apple: This phone you bought from us, right? You can’t do what you want with it.

Statewatch analyses The EU’s draft Reform Treaty

Burmese riot police attack monks

Euro realist MEP Tom Wise uses parliamentary privilege to spell out the allegations against Alisher Usmanov

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Allow the Red Arrows to Fly at the 2012 Olympics

Gordon’s Speech, Tagged

Multiplication bug in Excel 2007

Concern over NHS’s IT systems after 50 view celebrity’s details

Heerrre’s Timmy!
... Hmmm. Wonder if he likes being called Timmy… ;-)

...on recent events on the Internet, Chicken Yoghurt has an excellent jumping off point.

The interesting thing, of course, is that due to Schillings’ actions there are now significantly more people who know about Craig’s book Murder in Samarkand (paperback here) and who will have read his allegations against Usmanov.

Whoops… I don’t think that Schillings will be putting this in their online case history.

I do wonder why fasthosts apparently pulled the whole server account. Did they know it would get this reaction?

[11:29] Ouch. It’s just hit Boing Boing.

[2007-09-26] Double ouch. It’s hit Slashdot now. Yes, Schillings have excelled themselves this time…

DNA database ‘puts innocent under suspicion’
... [17:50] ORG’s opinion

Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal
... Groklaw’s take

‘10% chance’ of house price crash

Harman pleads guilty to speeding

Oh. Great.

When Theo and I went to Ireland for the wedding we decided to spend a night experiencing Dublin before traveling on to Galway. Davin, the bride’s brother gave us a text message guide of Dublin’s bars which avoids the tourist-filled awfulness that is Temple Bar. We had a wicked time, so here is The Tour!

We were staying at the Jury’s Inn on Parnell Street so the tour starts there:

Exit and turn left, walk 5mins down Parnell Street to Capel Street. Turn left and walk south towards the River. Nealons on your right is just before The Liffey, lovely Guinness.

Next cross the river to Parliament Street, passing Zaytoon (great kebabs). Thomas Read’s is on the corner of Parliament & Dame.

Turn left out of Thomas Read’s down Dame Street. Eventually on the right is a small back street that runs parallel to Dame Street called Dame Lane. Here is hidden, on the right, a place called The Stags Head. Just after that is 4 Dame Lane with flames above the door which stays open late.

We enjoyed every single one of the bars, and Zaytoon fed us with, frankly, the best kebabs I have had.

NZ surveillance target attempts to flog tracking kit

Researchers say they’ve hacked electronic car door locks

Italy urged to go on pasta strike

comp.risks Volume 24: Issue 82

Search the Labour Party 2005 election expenses for 2005
... so you can see where your money would go if parties were state funded

Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas