Cost of Living versus Quality of Living - Escape the Credit Crunch Abroad
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Africa, Americas, Asia, China, Current Affairs, Europe, Far East, Middle East, ireland | 1 Comment »Looking for the cheapest places to live? Assuming that you still earn a normal UK wage, you will want to compare Cost of Living Surveys and Quality of Living Surveys. Mercer, the Economist and some large governmental organisations compile these. ...
Nepal Becomes a Republic
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Asia, Current Affairs, News | 2 Comments »Nepal is in the final stages of booting out its centuries-old monarchy. The royal flag has been lowered at the main palace and the new national flag hoisted in its place. A new assembly has voted out the royal administration, ...
News from Around the World
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Africa, Americas, Current Affairs, Europe, Far East, Middle East, News, Politics, Sport | No Comments »I check the news every day on the websites of various major UK newspapers. I often see that all the headlines are the same and I get a sense that I don't really know much more about the world as ...
Rock Against Racism
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs, Europe, Music, Offbeat News, Politics, festivities | No Comments »Rock Against Racism was a movement formed in the 1970's in reaction to rising xenophobia and racism fuelled by organisations like the National Front. At the time, David Bowie allegedly said that Britain was ready for a fascist leader and ...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - with trailer
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Americas, Current Affairs, Films, YouTube | 2 Comments »The new film, "Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is due out on Thursday May 22nd. What I can't believe is that the invincible Harrison Ford will be 66 this year - what's he doing in another ...
Microsoft Unveils Brain-Chip for Facebook Users
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Apple Iphone, Current Affairs, Facebook, Webmaster Chat, What's New | 2 Comments »Microsoft has today unveiled ground-breaking technology that allows Facebook users to access their accounts, purely through the power of thought. The technology utilises advances in research used for the latest artificial limbs, which respond to electrical pulses emitted by the ...
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Posted in Current Affairs, General, Music, Rob's Pulpit | No Comments »We began hearing Wiley "Wearing My Rolex" being hammered out on 1Extra (BBC) as we listen to it on digital radio a lot while we ourselves bash out inane content from our underground lair. This tune is top drawer, and will ...
Things I Won’t Be Writing About Today
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Current Affairs, General, News, Rob's Pulpit | No Comments »Everyone writes about the same stuff, so today I won't be mentioning: Earth Hour - That was so last year! In fact, I covered it then, and now everyone has copied me; including Google Blacking Out - Google's gone black. Wow. They ...
William Hague on Phorm!
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Spyware Software, Consumer Protection, Current Affairs, Internet Security, Politics | 13 Comments »Following our piece on the campaign against Phorm software proposals, I e-mailed my local MP, William Hague, asking him to represent my views to the relevant authorities. A speedy response appeared in the post, direct from the House of Commons. ...
Phorm -Glorified Spyware
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Spyware Software, Consumer Protection, Current Affairs, Internet Security, Webmaster Chat | 2 Comments »BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen ...