Those lovely people at FaxYourMP have released a new set of stats showing how well MPs respond to faxes sent through the system. The average for all MPs is 63.15%. But my MP, Martin Linton, does much worse than that. He responses to 57.62% of the the faxes he gets. Are you listening Google? That’s… Continue reading MP Response Stats
Digital Interactive TV
I’ve been an digital cable TV customer of ntl for some years. When the system was installed I was told that interactive TV services weren’t available in my area but that they would arrive in “about six weeks”. This was something like four years ago and we still don’t have interactive services. A bit of… Continue reading Digital Interactive TV
More Firefox Press
There’s another piece about Firefox in this weeks Guardian Online. Once again it emphasises the fact that Firefox is only one of a number of pieces of open source software that organisations should be investigating. The significance of these developments becomes clear from research published in August by the British Computer Society. Among those Britons… Continue reading More Firefox Press
Comment Spam
Ben Hammersley talks about a new kind of comment spam that he’s been getting. I’ve been getting exactly the same thing here and my theories run along very similar lines. I’ve been nuking them.
Firefox in the Press
Today’s Guardian leader has a very nice piece about Firefox and how it’s slowly but surely eating away at IE’s market share. Firefox deserves to succeed, but even if it does not it will have highlighted the astonishing success of open source, well known inside the web community but not outside. Among other services, it… Continue reading Firefox in the Press
Terrible Gig
Update: Hello to anyone who has found their way to this page from the Queenzone forum. Sorry if my review upsets you, but it’s just my honest recollections of gig that I didn’t enjoy. As I say below, I’m sure that these problems have all been fixed up in the DVD release, so there’s no… Continue reading Terrible Gig
Election Aftermath
One last round-up of US election stuff and I promise we’ll be back to our scheduled programming. Firstly a site where intelligent Americans apologise to the rest of the world. In today’s Guardian Simon Schama writes about the divisions in the USA and names the two nations Worldly America and Godly America. Worldly America, which… Continue reading Election Aftermath
Why They Did It
The BBC have put up a “have your say” page asking Americans why they voted for Bush. The answers make for some very depressing reading. There are an incredible number of people who mention the fact that Bush is a christian in their responses. I’m constantly astonished by the number of Americans who see this… Continue reading Why They Did It
Four More Years
The news sites are just starting to run stories saying that John Kerry has conceded defeat in the presidential election. If I’ve learned anything from the last 12 hours, it’s that the large number of intelligent and decent Americans that I know only represent half of a bitterly divided country. There are just as many… Continue reading Four More Years
Dadblog
For a few months now I’ve been getting a lot of pleasure out of reading Dadblog. Today Lloyd excels himself by coming out in support of John Kerry (not that that was much of a surprise to anyone) in an entry that includes this: But if you believe the government of the most powerful political… Continue reading Dadblog