Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

Engadget are reporting on the Covini C6W, which has six-wheels.
It does indeed look crazy, if not the product of a mad photoshop session. It reminds me of the Panther 6, which when releases in 1977 appeared even more out of this world - especially as it was reported to do over 200mph and cost close […]

Taking the tube into a meeting in London today I saw the headlines of two of the UK tabloids. The Sun’s headline was “MAYDAY!, As floodgates open to EU migrants, can Britain cope?” and the Daily Mail’s was along the lines of Abu Hamza declaring a series of suicide bombing in the UK, which he […]

I went to an excellent Royal Television Society (RTS) London centre event last week organised by Margot Green. It covered the means of raising finance for TV productions and in particular advertiser funded programming or AFP in TV biz speak.
When one of the speakers, Natalie Tydeman from Freemantle, was introducing her company she touched […]

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Disturbing news. Originally this was an FT story, but it’s being reported here in a youth focused Korea publication.Beijing�s Horizon Research Group surveyed Chinese people under 35. The result
was that 93% of the respondents answered they ‘hate’ Japan. In particular, 80% of them said they ‘really hate’ Japan. The result shows an extreme anti-Japanese sentiment […]

Beer-ed up Ryan Jenkins sent a text message to the giant SMS displaying screen at the Cardiff nightclub he was in, and ended up paying for it.
OK, creating a bomb scare is never a clever thing to do and is always to be avoided, but to get six month prison sentence for it is incredibly […]

It’s great to see Tim Berners-Lee (who as we all know is the Englishman that invented the World Wide Web when at CERN in 1989) has finally received a financial award for his world-changing efforts.
The Millennium Technology Prize was awarded to him by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation and follows on from the Knighthood he […]

Sky One is to broadcast a new TV show where three people are tricked into believing that they have won the lottery and become millionaires. After five days they’ll be told the truth - and I imagine will be emotionally crushed for significantly longer as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives […]

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As we are all very aware, record companies keep telling us that they are really hard done by, as their profits have gone down so considerably. They claim this is due to music piracy - many other claim different factors, such as the music they are pushing on the public being uninspiring, and frankly unwanted.
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