Whatever crossed my time on the day, usually general muttering and rebelliousness over shady pricing by big companies, but also grammar, humour (100 funny insurance quotes is popular), and more
This post isn’t mine for a change, it’s something I read in one of Michael Heppell’s emailed newsletters that struck a chord with me, so I wrote to him and his team and asking if I could "steal" the newsletter and share it here. They kindly allowed me to reproduce it below. If you don’t […]
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In a recent article by Ars Technica entitled After moving money around, Google paid tiny amount in European taxes Basically the company created a shells company in Ireland to be its “European headquarters” and then set up a series of other shell company around the world – notably in Bermuda – and then charges its
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The irony of cold callers I’ve just spent 6 minutes on the phone arguing about irony! (They called me). The first couple of minutes to the initial telesales contact, the rest to her manager, who was quibbling pedantically and accusing me of being hostile. It goes like this: Them: “Can I speak to …” Me:
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1) I, Frankenstein Official Trailer #1 (2014) – Aaron Eckhart Movie HD 2) 300: Rise of an Empire – Official Trailer 1 [HD] 3) Captain America The Winter Soldier trailer UK — Official Marvel | HD 4) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer UK — OFFICIAL | HD 5) Transcendence Official Trailer #1 (2014) – Johnny
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WORM, the first digital world war, by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. Blurb The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million machines in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies and critical government networks – including the British Parliament and the French and German military
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Rather irked at the moment after one of DPD’s drivers had a major lapse of concentration. My wife’s monitor died so I ordered a new one. That was annoying in itself as it was a big and rather expensive Dell which, it turned out, has a flaw in that after 4 years – just outside
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The Chaos by Gerald Nolst Trenité, 1920. (Trenite also used the nom de plume Charivarius). The original had 146 lines and appeared in the appendix of his book ‘Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen’. What is said to be the most complete copy, as published by The English Spelling Society, has 274 lines. There are
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Forms of colorblindness Normal vision Trichromasy All three cones types are present and working normally Mildly colour blind Anomalous trichromasy A mild colour deficiency or weakness affecting 6.3% of men and 0.37% of women. One or more of the three cones light-sensitive pigments are not quite right, affecting the balance and brightness of colours: Protanomaly
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