Toblog

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… ;-)

A few excerpts from an article in this morning’s City AM (shame about the flash site):

Patientline, the company which offers hospital-bedside premium rater phone and television services has announced plans to cut the cost of calls, after admitting that a recent 160 per cent increase was “a mistake”.

The company caused controversy when it raised call charges for patients from 10p to 26p a minute in April.

[...]

Since the April price rise, Patientline has had to hold emergency talks with its lenders about its £80m debt.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company…

Alan Johnston is released

BMA votes for non co-operation on central records

Could the London property market be cooling?

UK Gov boots intelligent design back into ‘religious’ margins

US Airport fingerprint program expanding
... even more reason not to go

A little reminder of the utter tosh that Blair talked

John Smeaton – Hero For Our Time

Shameless self promotion

Marc Andreessen’s top ten Science Fiction reads of the 00s
... I have a very similar unfinished post on these lines.

Indy Film ‘Four Eyed Monsters’ released on You Tube for free

Natalie Portman: cognitive neuroscientist

German teen unplugs pensioner’s ‘noisy’ life support machine

What happens when British Airways loses your luggage? Pretty much nothing…

Girls just aren’t turned on by man boobs: Yet another waste of NHS money

Liam Byrne: ID Cards to be ‘great British institution’ on a par with the railways in the 19th Century
... good, so totally ruined by political interference and mismanagement then?</sweeping generalization>

Timbo gets interviewed on Bloggerview

Will bloggers get the blame for DoH mess?

100, 000 duff records on DNA database
... reliable then.

VirtualRPC for OS X!

The Plastic Bag that makes you a pariah

MTAS has been scrapped!

Microsoft claims 235 violated patents in Linux

Some excellent reviews for Richard Littlejohn’s book

Pupils petrified by gunman drill

Hospital choice irrelevant say patients
... Dr Rant says it better than I could.

600 space hoppers on the Millennium Bridge

Pound touches 14-year dollar high

Close to 25% of Use Rate in Europe for Firefox

The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products

UK inflation hits 3.1% in March

‘Action needed’ on NHS computers

City of London prepares for blanket Wi-Fi

All about the US watchlists

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers
... ‘Geeks have seen all the porn you can imagine and then some’

The NHS Database: Lord Warner’s opt out decoy.
... ‘A review of persisting privacy and confidentiality issues.’

NASA virtual flyby of Mars Rover landing site
... there’s another one here

GooPs: Google Earth GPS tracking and navigation

City Unslicker’s take on the recent fun on the markets

Sign to support academic freedom in Iraq

NHS Blog Doctor on the Private Eye’s NHS IT report

Iraq Dossier – The Facts
... a first draft of the dossier is apparently to be published tomorrow in the New Statesman.

Alien technology the best hope to ‘save our planet:’ ex-defence boss