Blogs (web logs). The new revolution in self-publishing. “Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging…” And Google provides a search engine which they say searches all blogs, not just theirs. But my search for some blogs I know about, on a number of different sites, only came up with Blogspot. [...]
If you have a bit of spare cash, you might like to think about an overseas investment property, investing in property in other countries where houses are good value. But there may be some serious fishhooks. Here are some things to think about.
Visit the country where you wish to buy.
Don’t get sucked in by [...]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has finally announced that the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu, is a pandemic, as cases worldwide reach an estimated 30,000.
The virus is now reliably being transmitted from human to human, fulfilling the last requirement of the pandemic classification. Though it hasn’t identified which country tipped the world into [...]
Half of all mobile calls will use VoIP within the next 10 years, according to Gartner. Well, there’s a topic to ponder over on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
VoIP, or Voice over IP (Internet Protocol – not intellectual property) is what happens to the voice to get it transmitted across internet data lines. Some tricky munging [...]
What is a Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line? I’d never heard of it until recently. But it’s what you need if you’re a small business and you want to send a reasonable volume of data over the Internet. Not heaps, but similar to download volume.
It is more appropriate to small and medium-sized businesses – too [...]
It seems money is a good motivator, even for 9-year-olds. A controversial programme being tested in New York is seeing fourth- and seventh-graders raise their grades by up to 40%. Why? Because they are getting paid for good grades.
The Sparks programme, being run at 59 high-poverty schools in New York, found that about two [...]
April and May might have seen rises in UK house prices, but the trend is still down, say market analysts. So, is it up, or is it down?
According to property consultants, we have reached the bottom of the market, but this message has been repeated several times and they are possibly confusing small seasonal increases [...]
BBC management meeting memos released under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Monty Python’s Flying Circus was nearly canned after the first show, with the series being in doubt up to a year after it first aired.
A memo after a December 1970 episode indicates that the BBC management found the sketches unfunny and in [...]
I saw the story on the Monday night news. Monday was a holiday in New Zealand, the kids and I had had a busy day. It was that calm after dinner/pre-bed-time period, and I was catching up on world events. The news story announced that an Air France plane was missing over the Atlantic Ocean.
In [...]
The unthinkable has happened. Susan Boyle did not win the final of Britain’s Got Talent. And she’s now been admitted to a clinic after behaving erratically after the show.
Is this the end of the line for Scotland’s singing sensation?
After coming second in the final to 10-person dance troupe Diversity, Susan Boyle was gracious, saying, [...]