Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

I happened to be around Aldwich, London today at about 2pm this afternoon, when the STOP BU$H rally was starting up.
There was a huge cross section of good humoured people on it. The actual numbers of the people attending is a bone on contention. Originally the police said there was 30,000 protesters, which was […]

I’m convinced that part of the future of media will be niche TV content. As media becomes digitised and devices such as Intel’s Digital Media Adaptor become more commonly connected to TVs, people will be able to view content in their lounge that was previously trapped on their broadband-connected study PC.
Now the means of […]

There is, rightly, more pressure building on the US Governments here in the UK to have our Government do something about the outrage that is going on at Guantanamo Bay.
Much has been written about the inhumane conditions the prisoners are being subjected to. Their steel cells*, which measure six feet-by-eight feet including their bed, toilet […]

Will the introduction of ID cards in the UK be another example of the UK government riding roughshod over public opinion?
The BBC reports on a leaked letter where the Home Secretary appears to be acting that way.It quotes Mr Blunkett as saying “a highly organised minority” would “campaign vocally” against the cards but that he […]

“Only 26% say he can be trusted to tell the truth.”
Hmmm, strange you should say that.

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The UK government keeps trying to introduce ID cards in the UK and most people don’t really want them. To try and get some feedback for the idea, the government opened a public consultation process. The results were reported on 28 April 2003 by Beverley Hughes, Minister for Citizenship and Immigration in the Houses of […]

Very exciting to see that Chandler 0.1 has just become Chandler 0.1 available immediately” href=”http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000166.html#000166″>available.

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Q: Where is Bin Laden?
Rumsfeld: We do know of certain knowledge that he is either in Afganistan, or some other country, or dead. [Listen RealAudio]
Genius

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There are 500 journalists travelling with US forces, but from what I saw on US TV, the result is huge amounts of footage but very little informative content. The Washington Post has an interesting piece on this:“I find it like salted nuts — very tasty and almost empty of high-quality nourishment,” said Alex Jones, director […]

Broadcasting House is an incisive news review show, hosted by Eddie Mair and runs on Sunday morning on BBC radio. For over six months they’ve been running a section called “The Donald Rumsfeld sound-bite of the week”, the most telling of which is I believe what I said yesterday, I don’t know what I said, […]