It seems that Google has agreed to censor google.cn to appease the Chinese government. This from a company whose mission statement was “Don’t be evil.”. Of course most multi-national companies have some sort of business operating in China, but it strikes me as particularly terrible when information technology/media companies collude with corrupt regimes to censor […]

In the same vein as Google Personal and other similar services comes Goowy, an interesting Web 2.0 service. It gives you e-mail, a calendar, games and widgets - all in desktop-looking experience that is unrivalled in terms of “looks sweet” ratings. If you don’t have Dashboard then this is the next best thing. And even […]

Aside from the insanely expensive new MacBook Pros that Apple have recently released, the one thing that really frustrates me about my Mac is the terrible handling of drop-down boxes and radio-buttons. For some strange reason if a web form has either of those elements in it I can’t simply tab into them, I am […]

I’ve known for a while that “the system” just doesn’t work. I know capitalism sounds very good and fair, people are free to trade just as they like, it’s just bartering on a larger scale. But increasingly I am finding out that things just aren’t quite right. Now I’m not advocating communism, facism, anarchy or […]

This comes from a friend and made me laugh.

My mum went up to our local bakery this morning (Jackson Crt, East Doncaster), and the shop was overflowing with croissants.
They received a phone order a couple of days ago for 2 “dozen” croissants, but they misheard the order and made 2 “thousand” (they’re Cambodian). They […]