Archive for August, 2006

The PM Programme has a Flickr account

Posted on August 30, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture, Web ideas

This made me laugh today: Flickr: BBC Radio 4 – PM Programme. There are several things that are brilliantly entertaining (in a techie way) about this in my view.
1. It’s a free account
2. The pictures are TINY and out of focus. Gloriously amateurish.
3. They haven’t set up a proper url for it (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/radio4pm/)
And the [...]

How the US health system gets in the way of entrepreneurship

Posted on August 22, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture

Here’s an article on Lifehacker that, in passing, sums up how the lack of a decent free health service in the US seems to get in the way of the leap to self employment. This is interesting as self-employment and entrepreneurship are at the heart of the American dream, but apparantly not that well supported [...]

Page memory

Posted on August 21, 2006 ~ Filed Under Diary

I’ve noticed something clever that my brain seems to do. When I return to a book I’ve been reading, and open the book at the page I’ve marked, 90% of the time my eyes go right to the point I left off. I made no conscious effort to remember the paragraph I finished at, but [...]

The joy of owning a PVR

Posted on August 17, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture, Diary

I was chatting to Céline the other day when she told me that her life had just been changed by a piece of technology. There followed a good 15 minutes of enthusiastic information about the joy of owning a hard disc television recorder, or PVR. I didn’t believe it: I mean, what could be so [...]

Straight constable proudly leading gay police in Brighton – from Pink News

Posted on August 4, 2006 ~ Filed Under Culture

Pink News reports that a straight constable will be proudly leading gay police in Brighton tomorrow.
The interesting this for me is I think it’s absolutely brilliant, but I must admit there’s a residual part of me that gets a bit militant and wants only gay people in these parades. I’m not sure where that comes [...]