Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

This is too funny. Tax defaulters in southern India are being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.

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This video is shocking - not for gory reasons, but strangely because it’s so restrained.
I have no idea if it it real. I’ve watched it a number of times and it appears real - not that I’ve ever witnesses this type of thing.
The background - man arrested for a shooting incident (more details on the […]

The news has just broken that Prince Charles and Camilla will not be getting married in Windsor castle as previously planned. Many have been surprised that the wedding is going ahead at all.
The latest trip up? The officials at Prince Charles gaff, Clarence House, have found out that if they were to apply for a […]

You know the scene - lads down the pub, a few beers, hyperbole flying back and forth, “If they win … I’ll … I’ll … I’ll cut my nuts off!”
This was the scene at the weekend in Wales during the run up to the countries eventual victory in the rugby - it’s first home win […]

I spent today at the TAHI conference, where I was on a panel. It was a really interesting insight in to all that is happening in the world of connecting all sorts of devices to wired/smart homes.
As I attended the opening dinner the night before, I stayed at fifteen-century The Red Lion Hotel in Henley. […]

Want to know how closed George Bush is trying to make America? Well, try to take a little peak at his Web site and if you’re outside the US you might be a little surprised to find you get a Access Denied - You don’t have permission to access “http://www.georgewbush.com/” on this server.
It is accessible […]

Using the sub editors dream of a headline, “Red faces at Orange over blue photos“, Reuters is reporting that a customer service employee sent a photo of his nuts to someone who asked if they could have the photo-phone tested. Oranges response?“This ex-employee sent some indecent photographs of himself. He was dismissed within a week,” […]

Sitting down at breakfast in hotels during trade shows, you always hear bits of gossip being exchanged over strong coffee - normally it’s about the ‘adventures’ of the night before. Today I heard some gossip that was less than typical. On the table next to me one of them allege that Bill Gates is the […]

It’s a very sad day to hear on Reuters that the classic London bus, the Routemaster, will be withdrawn in 2005.
Developed started in 1947, as a replacement for the trolley bus, it first hit the roads in 1956. Designed to negotiate the twisting street of London, it is not only a classic, but hugely practical […]

Walking home last night on the way back from EGN I was amazed to see an Enzo Ferrari parked at the top of my road. Clearly others reacted in a similar way as, not only did a group of around 15-20 start to form on the pavement, but at times the main road was blocked […]