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Rexyo - the non-search searchengine

Posted on November 20, 2008
Just been trying out a new search engine called Rexyo. It’s brilliant - sadly, not in a good way. According to Rexyo: “Rexyo is a versatile, highly scalable search engine currently available as an online Beta version. It is considered different from other search engines because it can search visually within images and video but also in [...

EMusic hit by domain chill in Canada

Posted on November 18, 2008
Online music company EMusic suffered a set back this week as the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) rejected their attempt to get the domain emusic.ca transferred to them. Under CIRA policy a complainant must show that there was a likelihood of confusion between the domain and the complaints registered trademark(s); that the domain owner has no [...

Consumer panel gets new name

Posted on November 17, 2008
The Ofcom Consumer Panel, and independent panel that was created to advise Ofcom on the consumer interest in the communications markets has today rebranded as the Communications Consumer Panel. The new name, which will see no change in in the panel?s relationship with Ofcom, is aimed at emphasising the panel?s role across all communications, and [...

The Clothes on Their Backs

Posted on November 12, 2008
Look - another Booker review, if much belated.. Linda Grant’s The Clothes on Their Backs, is a portrait of a post-war migrant family to London, struggling to find an emotional foothold in this new country. It is also a coming-of-age tale, recounting Vivian’s (the main character and narrator) young adulthood, as she comes [...

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Who are you?

Posted on November 07, 2008
Now that America has sorted out its election, all eyes turn to the big decision in the UK in 2010. No, not who’ll be our next Prime Minister, but who will be the next Doctor Who. With David Tennant confirming (what, in all honesty, we already knew) that he will no be continuing past the [...

iPhone

Posted on November 07, 2008
It has been a while since I posted about the iPhone, and since a couple of people have recently asked me if my love for it has grown, and what apps I cannot live without, I thought a brief post was needed. My love has indeed grown. There are still issues with it: taking photos is [...

US Election

Posted on November 03, 2008
It is now only a day until the US Election. In just over 24 hours time we will hopefully know whether from January 2009, we will have four years of President McCain or President Obama. If the polls are to be believed it is already a done deal, and it will be the latter, but [...

Complaint bandwagon - hop on

Posted on October 28, 2008
It looks like Ofcom will be dragged into the media frenzy that has been caused by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand leaving phone messages for actor Andrew Sach’s (still best known for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers). It seems likely that when they do that the BBC will get their fingers rapped, and no doubt [...

Swedish government departments with rss feeds

Posted on October 24, 2008
Sweden seems to have decided to pull all their governmental departments into one centralised site. Whilst this makes it easy to find things, it does make it harder to just filter the information you are interested in. Swedish Government [Website] Feeds News from the Swedish Government http://www...

Estonian government departments with RSS Feeds

Posted on October 24, 2008
Estonia has a reputation for being quite savvy when it comes to eGovernment - their Department of Foreign Affairs have a presence on Second Life for example - so it was disappointing to see how many of their ministerial departments are missing rss feeds...

Slovenian government departments with rss feeds

Posted on October 23, 2008
I have had a lot of emails (ok, it was only one) asking if I had abandoned my somewhat idiotic task of listing government rss feeds. Fear not, dear reader, I have not, and today present you with all you need to keep up with the happenings of the Slovenian government...

Slovakian government departments with rss feeds

Posted on October 23, 2008
Sadly, for every Slovenia, there is a Slovakia in RSS terms. I can only find??5 departments with feeds and only two of those seem to have a reliable working feed. Ministry of Agriculture / Ministerstvo p??dohospod??rstva [Website] Feed Aktuality http://www...

Libraries - Modernisation Review

Posted on October 22, 2008
Andy Burnham announced this review in a speech to the Public Libraries Association in Liverpool on 9th October. According to Burham, the government had brought Victorian Schools and Hospitals into the 21st century and now it was the turn of libraries...

Britney on Twitter and more ?

Posted on October 21, 2008
The news that Britney Spears had joined Twitter had the internet a flutter this weekend, with even Techcrunch claiming it was ???solid gold??? in Twitter???s push for the mainstream. Britney doesn???t seem to be directly involved in the updates herself, which are being done by ???her team???, but it is good to see they are [...

Lloyds TSB Online Banking Security

Posted on October 17, 2008
I got an email today telling me that I need to login to my online bank account and change my details to protect myself from fraud. Now, I’m not certain, but I think this might not have come from the bank … We recently determined that various computers connect on your account Lloyds TSD, Password and [...

More White Tiger

Posted on October 15, 2008
And so the votes are in, and this years Booker prize winner was The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Now you’ll have to hold on a bit longer until the combined wisdom of Scott & Jen pass their judgment on the Information Overlord winner, but congratulations to Aravind Adiga...

The White Tiger

Posted on October 14, 2008
Aravina Adiga’s book is the third book of the Booker shortlist to be set in modern day, but to spend its length looking back over a character’s ‘life-story’. Where this one perhaps differs is that we are informed very early on that out lead character is a murderous entrepreneur...

AG says that Data Retention Directive not ?3rd pillar? measure

Posted on October 14, 2008
The good people at Content and Carrier are reporting that Advocate General (AG) Bot has recommended that the European Court of Justice dismiss an appeal by Ireland for the annulment of the data retention directive (2006/24/EC) Ireland challenged the legal base of this Directive arguing that the European Commission did not have the power to [...

German court kills google image search for germans?

Posted on October 14, 2008
The Regional Court of Hamburg has apparently ruled that the use of thumbnail images in preview of search results by Google does infringe copyright. The Court ruled that no new work is created by thumbnails. This puts the German courts at odds with the American courts where court decisions in Kelly v Arriba and more [...

The Future?s bright, the future?s ? mobile.

Posted on October 10, 2008
I’m not telling you something you do not already know here. The Fact that Google has been developing its Android platform for so-called gPhones, was the only proof needed to tell you where the web’s biggest company sees the future. It is not the only one...

(Re)meme(ber) Music - the letter ?S?

Posted on October 09, 2008
Was thinking maybe I’d start a new Meme this week. But, what to do? - a Meme of your top 5 favourite internet memes perhaps? Favourite Todd Rundgren songs? (realised I’d be only person doing this one) … anyway, eventually decided on … drum roll please … Top 5 favourite songs by bands beginning with [...

Palin into insignificance

Posted on October 06, 2008
I don’t know about you, but all this politicking stuff is mighty tricky to understand. But I have read the interwebs and I now think I have mastered the US election thingie. One side want to keep America as a republic - they are called the Republicans; the other side want to turn it into a [...

Guest post - The Secret Scripture

Posted on October 01, 2008
See? This is what happens when you agree to do things at the pub. Reading all the Booker Prize nominees? Sounds like a great idea! I can guest post on your blog and everything! Which all sounds well and good at the time, untill you look at them all, and realise that you’re meant to [...

Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs

Posted on October 01, 2008
Booker book number two is Linda Grant’s novel about a child of refugee parents, Vivien, searching for her own identity through the past of her uncle, Sandor - a reviled slum landlord.The book looks back on her own childhood growing up, and in particular her relationship with her parents, Evrin and ??Berta, and a pivotal [...

Booker Prize - a little more conversation

Posted on September 21, 2008
As some readers of this blog will know, every year I make an attempt to read all six of the Booker prize short-listed books. Being a bit mad, I even try and manage it (and in all but one occassion fail) to read them all before the announcement of the winner - [...

NHS gets a date?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Bet the folks at match.com were surprised this morning to find that they were teaming up with the national health service (NHS) I know I certainly was. But, what else could the press release title - ‘Match.com’ for NHS and suppliers launched - mean? Sadly, it seems the online dating site is not actually helping [...

Italian federal government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 11, 2008
Italian Parliament [Website] Feeds Impegni ed attivit� http://www.governo.it/rss/impegni.asp Comunicati stampa dal Governo http://www.governo.it/rss/comunicati.asp Interviste ed interventi dal Governo http://www.governo.it/rss/interventi.asp Notizie dal Governo http://www...

FROM: MR MATHEW WILLIAM

Posted on September 11, 2008
I got an email from Mr Mathew William yesterday. He’s a banker from Burkina Faso. Apparently one of the bank’s clients died and left $25Million (his whole family died, you see. Plane crash. Terrible. Messy.) He died on 31st July 2000. Anyway, Mr William, knowing the kind of guy I am, has decided to share [...

French government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 09, 2008
Premier Ministre [Website] Feeds You can get personalised RSS feeds by crossing themes (over 70 themes available) and types of documents (news alone, only speeches, press releases alone, the Council of Ministers) For example: Argiculture Les actualit�s http://www...

Irish government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

Posted on September 05, 2008
Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) [Website] Feeds What’s New http://www.comreg.ie/about_us/rss.43.html Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources [Website] Feeds Press releases http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/rss/press.xml Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government [Website] Feeds Latest News http://www...

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