Trust USA politicians not to let a good crisis by
Nice to see that President Obama can be just as big a hypocrite as our politicians – perhaps even more so. Is it just me – or is there something cynical and opportunistic about Americans hand-wringing and shedding crocodile tears about the Gulf Oil Disaster?
It’s 45 days since the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon [...]
Buying Office Electronics
Even if you work at home nowadays, you can have an office electronics system that a few years ago you’d associate with a multinational company. If you need internet, video, and audio conferencing facilities in your own home – then you can have them – no problem.
In fact the sophistication of home phone [...]
World Cup ball gets excuses rolling
Every time the World Cup comes around, we expect a load of balls to be talked. Particularly if the pundits are talking up England’s chances. But this year (just like last time(, we are being asked to believe that the ball will be a problem. The engineers who have designed the official [...]
May 25, 2010Cockroaches are good food critics
At a time when we are facing a plague of cooking programmes, I was intrigued to see that cockroaches recommend good food sources to each other by communicating in chemicals, according to scientists.
The much-maligned insects appear to make a collective decision about the best food source. Who needs a good food guide when you can [...]
In praise of the Philippines
Like virtually everybody else in the UK outside the nursing profession, I knew next to nothing about the Philippines. Then I went on a diving holiday in the Philippines - a chain of around 7,000 beautiful islands and the Republic is the only predominantly Christian country in Asia. I had landed in paradise - [...]
May 17, 2010Who invented mobile phone upgrades?
This year, just like last year, I got offered an ‘upgrade’ by my mobile service provider. I can’t think of any other service where you are happy with what you have got (apart from the price of the service) when you get offered something different.
I mean – anyone would think that you are not happy [...]
Caneron is go
We nay not have a proper government at the moment – but at least David Cameron is making the right noises. It’s almost as though he actually cares! Take obscene overspending for example. David Cameron has announced an audit of the government’s books after finding examples of “crazy” spending decisions in [...]
May 15, 2010Space Shuttle is no more
The US space shuttle Atlantis has launched from Florida on what is expected to be its final outing. That is kind of historic I guess. I mean, from now on there will be no reusable spacecraft dipping into and out of space
The orbiter soared into blue skies above the Kennedy Space Center, leaving [...]