Have the government got their priorities skewed?
Why spend, say, £10,000,000,000 to help out a bank which then gets spent on bonuses and does nothing to help the economy?
Why not, instead, spend £100,000 on each of 100,000 small businesses that will spend the money on wages for the workers, materials from other small businesses and actually help keep a few hundred thousand people off the dole?
No gag here, I'm afraid but this isn't that humorous a subject.
As a small business owner, I'd be happy to help out by taking part in a pilot scheme.
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Tuesday 3 February 2009
Interesting
So, almost every visit to this blog via Google seems to contain some of the keywords "holst, lisa birgit. reading is believing. pc professional 1993".
Are all these people bothering to research the sources of the Snopes article? If they are, good, that is exactly the spirit.
Let me know what it was you were looking for when you came here.
Are all these people bothering to research the sources of the Snopes article? If they are, good, that is exactly the spirit.
Let me know what it was you were looking for when you came here.
Monday 2 February 2009
One of the million and one blog posts with this title.
I joined it a while ago and didn't really understand how, or for what, to use it. It didn't become clearer so I thought I'd jump in and see what I could make of it.
Microblogging seems to be the key, that and stalking celebrities. So I think I'll use it mainly as a journal/diary with no great need to edit or even think about content, it is simply somewhere to keep track of transient thoughts and my comings and goings. The facts of life that I find myself forgetting more and more. Handily, I have a nice little app for the iPod Touch that allows me to keep things updated on it.
And, obviously, I'll be stalking Stephen Fry, just like everyone else.
I joined it a while ago and didn't really understand how, or for what, to use it. It didn't become clearer so I thought I'd jump in and see what I could make of it.
Microblogging seems to be the key, that and stalking celebrities. So I think I'll use it mainly as a journal/diary with no great need to edit or even think about content, it is simply somewhere to keep track of transient thoughts and my comings and goings. The facts of life that I find myself forgetting more and more. Handily, I have a nice little app for the iPod Touch that allows me to keep things updated on it.
And, obviously, I'll be stalking Stephen Fry, just like everyone else.
Thursday 29 January 2009
Opening up
I was considering, as an experiment, trying to see if it is possible to live a modern electronic life powered only by open source or free software.
The biggest obvious problem would be deciding whether proprietary software included as the OS of electronic devices constitutes 'free software'. I'll say, for the sake of experimentation that it does
So, only stuff above the BIOS level of the computer counts, not my iPod, mobile phone or DVD player, for instance. Just the same way as I don't have to shun traffic signals or aircraft. The software used by websites I visit is also exempt, as long as I access it using a free/open browser.
In this age of Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, and all of Googles many and varied offerings, I am sure it is entirely possible to never pay for legitimately held software. The question remains though, is it possible while still remaining happy with the software you use and able to fully interact with everyone else?
The biggest obvious problem would be deciding whether proprietary software included as the OS of electronic devices constitutes 'free software'. I'll say, for the sake of experimentation that it does
So, only stuff above the BIOS level of the computer counts, not my iPod, mobile phone or DVD player, for instance. Just the same way as I don't have to shun traffic signals or aircraft. The software used by websites I visit is also exempt, as long as I access it using a free/open browser.
In this age of Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, and all of Googles many and varied offerings, I am sure it is entirely possible to never pay for legitimately held software. The question remains though, is it possible while still remaining happy with the software you use and able to fully interact with everyone else?
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