I had thought the Berlin transport system to be clean, efficient and punctual but on the last day, on the journey home I was checking the arrival time of my bus, which is one of the less frequent services and one of the other putative passengers said, “they are often late”. It reminded me. …
Fraud Warning
I was doing some research and had need to check out https://www.getitrightfromagenuinesite.org. This is what Opera reported.
Ha Ha 😆 …
On the dinner at Downing St.
In the aftermath of the Downing Street dinner and its fallout, the Daily Mash has some words of wisdom.
Ducks
Another thought about Nokia’s last year and a half!
Q: What happens when you hit windows phone with a duck?
A: You get two dead ducks?
First heard applied to OS/2, but worth repeating in the light of the Nokia sale to Microsoft …
Author’s Productivity
The last article took me 4 hours to write. I have expertise in the subject matter, which makes it easier and quicker, but had to do the research to find the quotes and cross references and read the supporting links to ensure relevance. The population data came from google sources and wikipedia. There are nearly 1400 words.
Is this slow or fast? Not sure, but it was more than the ½ hour that Boris Johnson claims his chickenfeed column in the Telegraph takes him to write each week and I get £250,000 less than he does for it. …
Three Wise Men, caption competition
The London Evening Standard ran this picture, with some rubbish about how Cameron brought his intellectual friend along to get Obama to lean on Merkel and Sarkozy to rescue the Euro (and lets face it, the Pound). Perhaps you can do better…
Please comment… …
Hello World, again
I have decided, that despite progress towards the resurrection of my now defunct 2nd blog, a Snipsnap bliki, that I can’t wait until then to start blogging again. So I have started this blog. BTW that blog was available a http://davelevy.dyndns.info and some the posts are available via Google Reader, [RSS/ATOM], …
ipint
Otherwise my first impression with an ipodtouch; I managed to spend a couple of hours on my new ipod touch today. I have loaded my music and selected a few applications. Scott Wilson showed me iPint on his iphone, so I had to go and get that, I’ll show you why. …
Smoking in public (in Amsterdam)
It seems that the Dutch have adopted the European/west coast habit of banning cigarettes in public spaces, which now includes bars, restaurants, offices and shops. Of course there’s a complication in the Netherlands. If your cigarettes contains cannabis you must smoke it indoors, otherwise, if they only contain tobacco you have to go outside. …
How much is my blog worth?
I originally wrote a piece on the toys being developed claiming to value a blog. The various algorithms were pretty primitive and this article talks of two, one of which remains functional one, of which does not. …