Is the Economy Stupid?

Posted on Thu 20 November 2008 in misc • Tagged with politics

The economy has been very much at the top of the news agenda (modulo dancing hysteria). I've recently added TV superstar Robert Peston to my feeds and I do find his articles very enlightening.

There seems to be a growing furor over the banks reluctance to start lending again. What …


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Batteries Included

Posted on Fri 14 November 2008 in misc • Tagged with development

I posted my first simple patch for Rockbox to their mailing lists yesterday. It's a pretty simple one but I'm a big believer in trying to make the build system as flexible as possible. Also as I'm thinking of various experiments on my one and only iPod it would be …


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No Follow

Posted on Tue 11 November 2008 in misc • Tagged with development

I don't really want to mention SPAM blogs in-case I give them Google Juice. However this one is interesting just for the phrasing of the language. For example (from here):

"“Transitive congratulates AMD on its incoming promulgation of the newborn Quad-Core AMD Opteron (TM) processor,â€? said Ian Robinson …


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The Result

Posted on Wed 05 November 2008 in misc • Tagged with politics

The pundits in the studio where certainly more confident than I was as we waited for the various states to declare. The slightly odd exit-poll + sample declaration system they use in the US meant the TV networks where being very cautious before calling the contended states. The geography of the …


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For our American Cousins

Posted on Mon 03 November 2008 in misc • Tagged with politics

It's a big day tomorrow and the last of the endorsements for the next President of the USA are coming in. While I have some fairly good ideas of who I'd like to see installed in the White House it's not really my place to say. It's a rather fundamental …


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