Monday, September 29, 2008

Shock, Horror ...

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U.S. House of Representatives rejects the $700 billion bail-out and ..... world doesn't end. If only people cared as much about the envi...

Is Gordon heading into Moron country?

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After weeks of reasonably sensible actions, suddenly the Government has made a complete howler. The £22.2 billion savings part of the Bradfo...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

A touch of creative copying?

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The recent SEAT Ibiza advert seems to remind me of the excellent Frontier Psychiatrist song by the Avalanches. If you watch the video closel...

Ahoy there mateys

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The housing market was hyper-inflated by excessive future borrowing. It's going to crash and a lot of people who have borrowed too much...
Friday, September 26, 2008

How's Joe?

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Since the U.S. financial system seems to be on the verge of collapse, it's worth taking a look at the financial state of your average U....
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

vCloud ...

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I was recently asked my views on the vCloud initiative. It's good that they are trying to create a marketplace of providers with portab...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Bad news ...

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Despite what is often repeated, global climate has long been suspected to change rapidly. Modern evidence suggests that at the end of the Yo...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What a Lehman ...

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According to today's announcement by Barclays Capital, ten thousand Lehman employees plus the business they created is worth $250 milli...

Standards and Innovation

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The emergence of standard components for ubiquitous and common activities does not impair innovation but accelerates it. This is the princip...

Deepest, darkest ...

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I arrived back today from my week long trip to deepest, darkest southern France. No internet, no phone and completely off the grid for a who...
Monday, September 08, 2008

Heads we win, tails you bail us ...

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Whether it's the environment or the economy, we've been heavily discounting the future and storing up trouble for ourselves. In the ...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Sound advice ...

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I'm a great fan of Dennis Howlett and his no nonsense approach to finance and IT. In his lastest post he talks about a number of practi...