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links for 2009-10-07

October 8, 2009

Air India Pilots, Crew Scuffle Leaving Cockpit Unmanned – If I hadn't travelled on Air India I would have dismissed this. But I HAVE travelled on Air India, and I CAN believe this. Unless you've travelled to places like this, it's impossible to believe the accounts people give you when they return. Mind you, when [...]

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links for 2009-09-25

September 26, 2009

Book Review: Windows 7 Secrets. An absolutely hilarious review of this new book on Windows 7. This is a hilarious review, and one with which I instinctively totally empathise. I've long disliked Microsoft's attempts at upgrading any of their products. I loathe Office 2007 with a vengeance. Why completely re-design something that was perfectly good [...]

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links for 2009-09-22

September 23, 2009

SEO For WordPress Blogs – How to Make Your WordPress Blog More Effective in The Search Engines WordPress is naturally well optimised for the search engines, but there are some things you can do to give it an extra boost. Here are some on-site steps you can take to improve your WordPress blog's performance in [...]

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18 Sexy Things Windows 7 Will Do

August 27, 2009

I dislike Microsoft – the arrogance that comes from having such a strong market position is extremely irritating. The disaster that was Vista didn’t affect them at all – whereas it should have buried them. So I do not look forward to the release of Windows 7. All my machines are still running XP – [...]

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If You Compare Obama to the Nazis You Need a History Lesson

August 25, 2009

I’ve listened to and read some of the rhetoric that’s been pushed out by opponents of the healthcare reform program and I become more disgusted each day. And I’m not an American. I read posts on Twitter, I watch video clips and I read news reports that are deliberately highly personal attacks on your President. [...]

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Trying To Have an Argument…

August 20, 2009

“..Trying to have an argument with you would be like trying to argue with the dining room table..” That’s one of the best put-downs I’ve heard for a long time and it comes from Barney Frank at a Town Hall meeting where some woman compares Obama to Hitler and the Health Care Reform proposal to [...]

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The US Health Care Debate

August 18, 2009

I’m not an American, so I feel a little uneasy at sticking my nose into what is essentially an internal issue for the US to sort out. It shouldn’t concern me. But it does. It’s not so much the details of Obama’s proposed plan, or the impact the current system has on the US economy. [...]

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Zimbabwe – A Tragic Reminder

August 17, 2009

I long ago gave up being frustrated and bitter with the ineptitude of both British and American politicians, who thought they had the knowledge and wisdom to define for Zimbabwe (Rhodesia as it was then) how it should organise itself. This article, though, is a stark reminder, if any were needed, just how badly the [...]

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