Archive for May, 2008
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008These two stories from the BBC concerns a wider issue that has been bubbling away in British politics for a little while now, the issue of MP’s expenses.
Given that an MP currently earns just over £61,000 - and a Cabinet Minister earns an extra nearly £77,000 on top of that - it seems somewhat obscene [...]
Last man standing
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008WSOP Heads Up is the latest in my sometime series of experiments with online gaming. This one, though, is a bit more intense than the others.
The major difference is that Heads Up is a one-on-one game - no more of this playing against a multitude of faceless players. Here it’s just you and the other [...]
Brief notes
Friday, May 9th, 20081 First and foremost, congratulations to Eastbourne Borough FC who were superbly victorious in their play-off final last night. We’re moving up into the Blue Square Premier League next season; national football for the first time in the club’s history. The guys done good!
If you saw the match on Setanta and wonder who the hell [...]
Confused about Alexa
Thursday, May 8th, 2008I’ve never really understood why Alexa rankings are used as a guide to how popular a website is. As they themselves say that their data “may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. To the extent that our sample of users differs from the set of all Internet users, our traffic estimates [...]
Bass-ackwards once again
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008The BBC is a good source for all sorts of news - including the stuff that really makes my blood boil. This latest story deals with a statement from the National Association of Head Teachers, calling for good parents to be rewarded for looking after their children properly.
Sorry? You want to reward people for doing [...]