The Observer is a strange newspaper. Here’s a bit from its business page today: Disturbed by the lack of similar action in Brussels and in Frankfurt – home of the European Central Bank – investors fear that the eurozone is sliding ever closer to recession. They are also worried about a sharp slowdown in China,…
Read More China changes government. Exclusive in the Observer.Things I’d like to include: Phil Lapsley’s book Exploding the Phone and some observations about telecoms billing records and the police that arise. David Wood’s book Smartphones and Beyond about how the future was right here and then it…wasn’t. (“right here” includes Macclesfield and Bury St. Edmunds.) Circling back to Scottish and other devolution. Is…
Read More Open newslist 8Michael Hofmann reviews Martin Amis and it’s a stinker. This is the bit that stuck out for me. It will look pedantic but there’s a lot that can be recovered from this paragraph. I walked on for another ten minutes; then I turned and looked. The Buna-Werke – the size of a city. Like Magnetigorsk…
Read More er, spark plug. thingy. germans. ha ha.So, Open House weekend again. Part of the fun is always the opportunity for gratuitous travel around London.
Read More #openhouse: meet the Edwardian future, where your water comes fromI’m currently reading Oliver Campion-Awwad, Alexander Hayton, Leila Smith, and Mark Vuaran of Cambridge Computer Lab’s case study on the NHS National Programme for IT, an old topic of this fine blog’s. There is so much in common here with Think Defence‘s epic blog series on the disastrous FRES project it’s not even funny. In…
Read More The West Yorkshire snack vortex, his personal shopper, NHS computing, and FRESSo, ISIS. Through the open newslist it turned out that a lot of you could put off reading about Jimmy Savile until later if it meant hearing about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and why it seemed at the time to have the beating of the Kurds. Let’s begin with the geography, or…
Read More ISIS: thinking on a scale set by the landLinkedIn’s algo just recommended me this: The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s Mobile Technology Programme works on a wide range of exciting initiatives – from conducting independent research and developing bespoke mobile apps to forging innovative public-private partnerships and implementing regional projects – all with the aim of utilising mobile technology to support women entrepreneurs…
Read More Career opportunitiesOne for Erik: Woollard’s writing suggests a more tragic story, where these principles were well understood in the factories of Britain’s industrial heartland, only to be lost in the decades that followed. It seems likely that the principles were preserved or possibly rediscovered by Toyota…
Read More One-link postI have just noticed that if you leave a comment on the New York Review of Books‘s blog and it goes into moderation, they return the following message: Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by The New York Review of Books. Put like that, it almost seems an honour.
Read More Just becauseThe last time we did this was a bit thin. Anyway, tonight 7pm and the Constitution in Camden Town.
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