According to a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish, the US government is charging it’s citizens in Lebanon for the priviliege of being removed from that country and being left in Cyprus. Where they’ll have to sort out their own accomodation and flights back to the US. Nice of them isn’t it. To be so concerned about [Continue]
How to blog - and keep your job After reading that article, I started thinking about all the various bloggers who got sacked after their employers found out about their blogs. How hard could it be to make sure that you didn’t mention your work? Or if you were talking about your work, not to mention names and place or any identifying [Continue]
Digital switchover a mystery to many: Analogue TV signals will start to be switched off in two years’ time, but a third of UK TV viewers are still unaware of the switchover. A survey by Digital UK found that awareness has grown by 13 per cent since the launch of the Digit Al campaign, voiced by Little Britain star Matt Lucas. But that still [Continue]
How paedophiles prey on MySpace children It’s difficult to know what to say to the Daily Mail’s usual reaction to anything that could indicate change or newness (the “OMG WE MUST STOP IT” reaction). So mostly, I’m just going to go through some of the article and comment on it. The experiences of Alice and Lucy should [Continue]
I just read an interview by TechDigest with one of the founders of Egg, the internet bank. It discusses the subject of who might have your personal data - things like your address, date of birth and name as well as other data that might be held by various companies. In Britain, the Data Protection Act allows you to ask any company for the data [Continue]
Generational impacts of adoption - Harlow’s Monkey Blogger Harlow’s Monkey discusses her being adopted, not knowing her biological family medical history and how that has affected her own daughter. Sometimes, I think my unknown medical history is the most damaging feature of being adopted. But of even greater concern is that I don’t [Continue]
Boing Boing - Only traitors try to make us afraid of terrorists The paper this article takes about seems to have a point. Terrorism is highly unlikely to kill me. I mean… I live in the UK and here we’ve had various terrorist acts from the IRA, Islamic militants and so on… but I’m still here. No one I know personally has [Continue]
Young drive ‘radical media shift’ Sixteen to 24 year olds are spurning television, radio and newspapers in favour of online services, says the regulator’s study. I can’t say that I’m surprised really. Most people in that age group would probably have grown up with computers and the internet. Personally I used to watch [Continue]
