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Wow, LJ is still here
I was thinking of putting stuff into a blog again. I was watching Yan (bcrypt) give a talk on youtube. She mentioned LJ. I wondered if my old account was still live. Lo and behold: it is. And LJ has had some extra functionality added ( Read more... ) -
Livejournal Post
I haven't written anything here for a long, long time. Somehow LJ has survived when many other similar services have fallen by the wayside.
My main journal now is at www.stevehemingway.com, but I think I may write some entries here from time to time. -
The High Price of Easy Credit
This piece by jan-martin feddersen has a hilarious spoof advertisement. But don't fail to read the text. It shows that credit creation at very high rates is out of control in the USA today. (Thanks to Merryn Somerset Webb for the link in her newsletter). I remember the chairman of Lloyds Bank saying that the personal sector should not acess ( Read more... ) -
Laptops
I want a nice, light, laptop with a good video card. I bought the one I'm typing this on, an IBM Thinkpad T40p about three years ago. Looking at the likes of Dabs, laptops really don't seem to have moved on. There is a new operating system on the block, Vista, but apart from that nothing much has changed, except there are now quite a few laptops ( Read more... ) -
Freedom of Information
Only the Left supports Freedom of Information. The anti-establishment is convinced that that they are conspired against. The Right feels that the plebs cannot relied upon to support the right policies, so that a few white lies to ensure their support is justified.
After decades of campaigning the Labour Government of '97 brought in FOI information, ( Read more... ) -
Google Checkout - the Juggernaut rumbles on
You know Google Checkout has to be pretty good. Why else would eBay so strive so hard to prohibit eBay sellers from accepting it as a means of payment?
What I didn't realise is how good Google Checkout is. From my point of view, the most important thing about shopping cart payment system has to be its convenience. My own requirements are very ( Read more... ) -
Brown and Blair given beta-gamma-double-minus
I love to read Martin Wolfe. We all crave certainty in our lives, particularly important aspects of them, such as how we should be governed and how society should be ordered. Since I do not accept devine authority as a source of temporal power I look for secular institutions to provide a secure, well-ordered society. But governments always seem to ( Read more... ) -
New Mental Health Bill
The current government has had three attempts to introduce a new Mental Health Act over the last nine years. Each of them has been opposed strongly. The current one is opposed not only by virtually all the independent peers, and by the opposition parties, but also by eighty mental health organisations including Mind, the Royal College of ( Read more... )
