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Declining Morals

James brings upon of the greyer areas in life. What are the differences between a snitch and a whistleblower?

It’s another moral dilemma situation as far as I am concerned. You see in reality there is no real difference between a snitch and a whistleblower. Both are highlighting activity that is illegal or immoral [...]

Interesting new research tool

Seems there is a new web based research tool on the way.    It’s described as a graphical tool with a reference library and search engine built in.  It does the calculations and displays the results instead in textual and graphical form if suitable instead of merely displaying links to sites with that data in.

It’s called ‘Wolfram [...]

Being selfish

When I was a lot younger the group I was involved with were involved were what is now called survivalists.     In those days that involved simply being prepared for events both physically and mentally.   I reality it meant that we put aside some foodstuffs, medical equipment for a, very, rainy day.    We also spent some time [...]

Mosquito bites on a tank

After my post on ‘Shoes in the machines‘ I looked at what we can do to stop or cause inconvenience in each one of the areas I thought were key for us. These key areas were;

Name Home Financial Health Car Travel Phone Internet

It quickly become apparent that we are already past the [...]

Microsoft running scared?

It’s common knowledge for a while now that corporate users of XP are refusing to move to Vista and twice now MS has put back the date where it would no longer support XP.     Corporate users have a lot of clout where Home users would just be left in the cold.

So for a [...]

Throwing shoes in the machines

The latest piece from our KGB style government started work earlier this week.    It records every URL you visit and who you sent your EMails to and, as usual, it’s all blamed on terrorism and/or it’s for the children and no one who was not a terrorist or paedophile would object to it.   Read [...]

How to ensure databases don’t work

Even though people like to pigeonhole us into nice little groups once we step outside the physical characteristics that can be used to define us we suddenly become unwieldy and more difficult to catalogue.

Sure, we still do that cataloguing but it leads to fuzzy edges with many of us rejecting the classification and [...]

Productive use of wasted time

One of the things I’ve always found interesting is our level of ingenuity. There always seems something out there that some of us are wasting and someone else comes up with a good use for.

Take computer idle time. In the olden days it was just wasted. Then along came screensavers and we quite [...]