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The day we all became thieves…
I want you to cast your mind back to a time when people made things in exchange for other people’s money… when you wanted a loaf, a horseshoe, a barrel and an arrow, you paid a visit to Messrs Baker, Smith, Cooper and Fletcher.
Go to a company called that now and you’re more likely to find it full of lawyers. Taking a loaf, horseshoe, barrel or arrow without payment or permission was theft, pure and simple. Continue reading
When did we all stop caring?
Polar bears are drowning and starving because of climate change. Continue reading
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Maybe David Cameron wants a dictatorship?
David Cameron: “Why do we want a system used by only Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea?” He’s implying here that because only a few countries use it, it must be a bad thing. Hmm… let’s look for a system with more support. Totalitarian dictatorship! Continue reading
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Make digital books cheaper than paper.
At the time of writing the Amazon Kindle edition of Sarah Pain’s book “Going Rogue” is selling for $14.09 and the hardback edition for $13.50. Amazon’s capitulation to Macmillan over selling eBooks (at a loss!) for $9.99 as a Kindle loss leader is a disaster for the customer and the planet…and all because the currently mythical iPad will apparently let publishers charge more… cheers Steve. Continue reading
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Tagged book, cd, copyright, ebook, ereaders, green, insulation, paper
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Belief: what trusted sources tell you.
I’m not only talking about religion here I’m talking about everything. The TV program QI (Quite Interesting) has a round called “General Ignorance” where they ask questions you think you know the answer to but virtually every “common knowledge” answer turns out to be either completely untrue, wildly inaccurate or superseded by the progress of human knowledge. Continue reading
Reduce, reuse, recycle, relieve and reverse. #BAD2009
This is a re-print of my entry to Blog Action Day 2009 as it gives a backdrop to the topic for this year… if you want to enter, and I’d love it if you did, there’s a link at the … Continue reading
The rainbow bubble of inspiration burst.
Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while. I had a run-in with twitter and the account was temporarily suspended (only a week to ten days while I appealed). This meant I couldn’t participate for a couple of weeks but had … Continue reading
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Why don’t politicians give straight answers?
Why don’t politicians give straight answers? Could it be because we won’t let them? Continue reading
It’s a no ring, ping thing…
I think we should have an international No FNoise Day where we turn off all the things which ring, ding, bing, ping, zing and vibrate to get our attention. I spring cleaned the Notifications on my iPhone because it seems … Continue reading
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Tagged bing, ding, fnoise, noise pollution, ping, ring, vigilante, zing
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Get things wrong: set a deadline.
I worked on Millennium Bug projects so I can appreciate a genuine deadline when I see one (let’s skip the fact it was either mostly a waste of time and money or a spectacular success which saved us all from … Continue reading
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Tagged budgets, concept, deadlines, deadlines management, money, people, prototype, resources quality, scope, time
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