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Podcast Hype
Why is it so difficult to get podcasts downloaded?
I always want one to use while doing a dog walk.
I just paid to upgrade to the pro version of Quicktime 7. I hope this will be worthwhile.
I keep meaning to use Total Recorder to record an audio stream, but life is too short. -
Rubbish Entry
I have been getting further and further behind in making journal entries. Work just doesn't finish, and I'm getting further behind with other stuff too. Either the rate of the passage of time is increasing or I am slowing down. I suppose it must be the latter. I feel very old, now I have passed my half century. I have a bad pain in one of the ( Read more... ) -
Help!
I have posted this kind of entry before. But today I'm desperate. I need some admin help. If you know anything about webmastering work I'd like to hear from you. I need to offload the management of the herts lettings website to someone. You don't really need to know much about HTML, and all that stuff as the site now runs on a CMS. It would be nice ( Read more... ) -
Happy Mediums
Right and Left disagree about redistribution. Perfect equality of income is bad, the Right says, because it destroys incentive. Extreme inequality is bad for a nation because a large part of the population finds itself in a situation that it cannot afford both to educate its children and feed them ( Read more... ) -
Denitrification
Come again?
You know - the reverse of nitrification.
Whaaat?
Surely you did 'O' level biology. The process by which bacteria fix (di) nitrogen from the atmosphere.
Ummmm
Leguminous plants, nodules, nitrosamonas and nitrobacter
I think I missed that lesson
Well, all living organisms need proteins, and proteins are long strings of amino acids, which have ( Read more... ) -
Sub Prime Mortgages
The big difference between the developing world and the developed world is the availability of credit to consumers. This creates demand in the consumer sector and is undoubtedly a good thing but, as we all know, we can have too much of a good thing.
The wobbles in the US stock market over the last few days have been a result of problems in the US ( Read more... ) -
Aid to small business
I run a small business. I am not alone. There are 3.5 million of us in the UK. That includes all business with fewer than 249 employees (what a peculiar cutoff- surely 250 would be the natural one!). It seems that the government spends 12 billion pounds helping us, although not a penny of it goes to me. About a third of the sum goes on ( Read more... ) -
Countrywide
The Estate Agency sector in the UK has a most peculiar structure. Countrywide is the largest, with 7% of all the 1200 agencies in the UK. It has now fallen into the hands of the Barbarians. It will be interested to see how the mess of agencies that is Countrywide will be treated by Apollo. There are a eight chains with more than a hundred offices, ( Read more... ) -
Trident
Sixty-four of 101 Labour lawmakers who responded to a British Broadcasting Corp. poll published yesterday said they oppose the 20-billion-pound ($39 billion) proposal to renew the country's Trident nuclear-missile submarines. Lawmakers vote on the plan on March 14, and the government may have to rely on opposition Conservative Party support to win ( Read more... ) -
Will Self
I love this transcript of a Nicky Campbell interview with Will Self and Richard Littlejohn. If politicians had this sort of exchange on the radio we'd respect them more and turn out to vote for them. Of course they don't want to get into polarised positions. But the alternative is to just argue about who would be better about negotiating GPs ( Read more... )