October 24th, 2008
Apple comes out publicly to oppose the Proposition 8 vote in California on November 4th. Prop 8 seeks to overturn the Californian Supreme Court ruling on same sex partnerships. Apple donates $100,000 to fight Prop. 8Apple said it views Proposition 8 as a civil rights issue, not a political one and as such, is donating [...]
October 24th, 2008
Larry David is cracking up waiting for the USA election to happen – I can’t take much more of this. Two weeks to go, and I’m at the end of my rope. I can’t work. I can eat, but mostly standing up. I’m anxious all the time and taking it out on my ex-wife, which, [...]
October 24th, 2008
Just finished reading Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope. It is a very good book indeed. I read it in print form (on the Sony Reader) and as an Audio book. Skipping between the formats depending on what I was doing. The audio book version is read by Obama. He could have a good career [...]
October 21st, 2008
Amid many promises about futuristic automobiles, an unlikely one seems to be coming true: hydrogen fuel-cell cars. From: SciAm Test Drives Two Street-Legal Fuel-Cell Cars: Scientific American
October 19th, 2008
Another nail in the McCain presidential campaign effort: US President George W Bush’s first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has endorsed Democratic election candidate Barack Obama for the White House. From: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Colin Powell backs Barack Obama
October 19th, 2008
Botheration. It’s going to take at least 8 months to fix the Large Hadron Collider. Officials at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, say that the time is needed to overhaul a sector of the 27-kilometre-long machine, after an electrical failure on 19 September caused some 6 tonnes of ultra-cold liquid helium to leak [...]
October 19th, 2008
A team of European physicists has developed an integrated circuit that can build itself. The work, appearing in this week’s Nature1, is an important step towards its ultimate goal — a self-assembling computer. From: Computer circuit builds itself : Nature News
October 13th, 2008
A new Conservative Humanist Association has been formed for atheist and humanist Conservatives. That’d include me then Just renewed my membership of the Conservative Party by joining the Northern Ireland Conservatives. If you want to see normal UK politics operating in Northern Ireland, and if you have Conservative leanings, then join up. If you don’t [...]
October 11th, 2008
Been critical of iBlogger on iPhone in the past. Testing again with the footer advertisement turned off. Edit with Ecto: Seems to post okay without screwing up my (commercial, paid for) WordPress theme. Adding the location to a post does screw up the theme though. Not sure I’d use that feature.
October 4th, 2008
I’m reading Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope at the minute. The following excerpt struck me: Sometimes we need both cultural transformation and government action – a change in values and a change in policy – to promote the kind of society we want. The state of our inner-city schools is a case in point. [...]