Facebook and Microsoft?
May I be the first to run around the room with my arms flailing? Facebook may merely be working with Skype to introduce video calling, and Skype may have only been recently bought by Microsoft, but it...
View ArticleThe End Of The Euro Crisis?
Economic Growth - Or Lack Thereof I hate the silly term double-dip recession. It makes it sound like there is some sort of mathematical explanation for this graph, a predictability about it. What we...
View ArticleFaster Than Light
What something travelling faster than light would look like, if you could see it But it’s not only in a Galway coroner’s court that the laws of nature have been suspended. They’re just as...
View ArticlePatents – The New Rock ‘n’ Roll
Phone patent litigation in US courts alone ©The Daily Beast With what I want to believe was ill-disguised glee, Samsung has taken out injunctions against sale of the iPhone 4S in France and Italy over...
View ArticleHow The Euro Exploded, Part 1
"I have no idea what I'm doing!" Italian stock markets rally on rumours that Berlusconi may step down. That says everything really. Usually the forced resignation of a head of government sends the...
View ArticleHow The Euro Exploded, Part 2
Money. It's the root of all ****-ups Why has the Eurozone gone awry? Why have the economies of Ireland, Greece and – it looks likely – Italy shot off the precipice like runaway trains? Well as in any...
View ArticleWhat Is The Markets?
*This* is a market. Accept no substitutes We’re hearing a lot about how ‘the markets’ are reacting to changes in the Greek and Italian governments. It would seem the broad assessment is ‘unhelpfully’....
View ArticleSkin My Shed
Yeah it looks pretty, but you don’t have to clean it. The back-kitchen / laundry / scullery / workroom / conservatory / toolshed at my parents’ house hadn’t really been tidied since my father died – or...
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