Sunday Giant Stranded Ship Blogging
Remember Monday Stranded Giant Container Ship Blogging? Outsourced to Ship of the Day.
Read More Sunday Giant Stranded Ship BloggingFebruary 3, 2008
PIE
If this ZDNet story means what it seems to, Microsoft is looking at Python in the browser. Now there’s interesting…a Python Internet Environment, PIE for short?
Read More PIEThe King called up his jet pilots; he said you’d better earn your pay
Russians! Russian air force out again, in some strength; and exercising a whole range of types, including the White Swan…sorry…Tu-160 BLACKJACK, BEAR, BACKFIRE, and MiG31 and Su27 fighters into the bargain, to say nothing of jet tankers. For people who aren’t making a political point, they certainly look like it. Meanwhile, the French Air Force…
Read More The King called up his jet pilots; he said you’d better earn your payBlogging Rugby League; Big Kickoff
More of a note than anything else, but yesterday was kick-off day for Rugby League; Keighley were off to Whitehaven today in the Northern Rail Cup, which sounds like it’s going to be colder than cold and proverbially long. I’ve noticed some reasonable blogs around: Treiziste Diary, Times Online RL, TGG. Though how anyone could…
Read More Blogging Rugby League; Big KickoffCo-operating
Liberal health policy. Apparently there’s to be a blogger Q&A about this on Tuesday; it looks roughly OK to me, although I’d like to see us offering something genuinely radical like converting some trusts into co-ops. Interesting question; how could that interwork with Clegg’s elected health boards?
Read More Co-operatingSmall groups and big systems
This story about the US Democrats, and specifically the Obama campaign, and their strategy based on small, autonomous campaign groups working from a honking gurt database of voters, hooks into something I’ve been thinking recently; in all kinds of fields, it’s all about big enabling systems that small autonomous organisations can benefit from. This is…
Read More Small groups and big systemsThe Defence Crisis; BAE Are Still Hopeless
It appears that the defence procurement stories we’ve been tracking are coming to a head. Recently, it emerged that the Astute SSN, Nimrod MRA4, and T-45 destroyer projects are going significantly overbudget again; the first two of these are, of course, the ones that were already £800 million over budget and several years later. The…
Read More The Defence Crisis; BAE Are Still HopelessMirrorball: Paul Staines and those “Liberals”
The consistently superb Bartholomew’s notes on religion has published extensive details about Paul De L’Aire Staines, various old friends, and South Africa. As it seems inevitable that he will fire off a nastygram at any moment, readers are asked to mirror the text in the interests of public enlightenment; I’ve dropped it in the comments.
Read More Mirrorball: Paul Staines and those “Liberals”Mirrorball: Paul Staines and those “Liberals”
The consistently superb Bartholomew’s notes on religion has published extensive details about Paul De L’Aire Staines, various old friends, and South Africa. As it seems inevitable that he will fire off a nastygram at any moment, readers are asked to mirror the text in the interests of public enlightenment; I’ve dropped it in the comments.…
Read More Mirrorball: Paul Staines and those “Liberals”