Labour’s leadership nominations show some interesting switches from last time, John Cruddas switches from David Miliband to Jeremy Corbyn. Wonder if that’s how he’s going to vote. …
Cinema times
I am loading up my new android phone with the apps from the old one but when it comes to cinema schedules, the old Orange applications has gone; they’re no longer funding it. Their replacement is ‘compare the market’ and their stupid meerkats but you need to be a customer. I am not! 🙁
mV=PQ
More Macro-economics at the Register! The short answer is that it did. Tim explores Friedman’s mV=PQ and the newish phenomenon that V varies; it’d be a bit shit if it varied as a result of changes in m, but Tim concludes that QE proves there is a monetary policy option to business cycle management. Something that had been thought to be unavailable since 1936. …
gcal
Excellent, I didn’t know you could put HTML into a Google calendar entry, it seems you can. Hyperlink here, we come!
Gold
Just checking out the s.p. on Brown selling Britain’s Gold and comparing it with the coalition’s sale of the Post Office. Over a two year period, the loss of gold value, minus the appreciation of the alternate assets purchased is pretty much what the coalition splashed up the wall on privatising the Royal Mail.
STV
When’s STV not STV? When there’s no transfer of surpluses, or when you express more than a second preference?
New Cross
Mrs L. was saying, that Deptford is pre-gentrifying at such a rate that there’ll be a Costa next! She’s wrong, it’s already here.
Spitalfields
Went to Tower Hamlets last night, the comrades teamed me with a visitor from Hendon and sent us to the depths of Spitalfields.
Curry
A new curry house has opened next to the Marquis of Granby in New Cross, hope it’s better than the last.
Beauty
The current Android folder icons are very ugly. Why can’t I have the old Android desktop folder icons back? …