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Special virus alert
September 12th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Subj: VIRUS ALERT Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE Warning: There’s a new virus on the loose that’s worse than anything I’ve seen before! It gets in through the power line, riding on the powerline 60 Hz subcarrier. It works by changing the serial port pinouts, and by reversing the direction one’s disks spin. Over 300,000 systems have […]
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Winston Churchill travelling fellowships
September 11th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
In 1980, I won a Travelling Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to visit the USA for five weeks and study that country’s telecommunications system. The Trust is still awarding fellowships and has just advertised the categories for 2008. The closing date for applications is 14 October 2008. More information here.
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Why men should never be depressed
September 3rd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Men are just happier people– Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can never be pregnant. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another petrol station restroom because this one […]
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Understanding PMR and GCA
September 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Five women are launching a trans-Atlantic survey to help find the causes – and cure – for two mystery illnesses, PMR and GCA, which mainly affect the over 50 ‘baby boomers’ and must cost the UK many millions of pounds. These illnesses also mainly affect women, and an estimated 100-200,00 suffer from them in the […]
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Reasons to be cheerful
August 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Barack Obama has become the first African-American to be nominated a US presidential candidate by a major political party. In terms of gold medals won, Team GB achieved the best performance for the UK in the Beijing Olympics in any Games for a century. The summer is virtually over – here in London, it has […]
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Reasons to be be fearful
August 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
The President of Russia tells the world that he is ready for a new Cold War. Seven years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large. The credit crunch is taking the US and UK economies into recession.
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Reasons to be tearful
August 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
There is still no resolution of the conflict in Darfur. There is still no power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe. We still don’t what happened to little Madeleine McCann.
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Happy people dancing on planet Earth
August 19th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Check out this video and. if you don’t smile, you’re not from this planet. Once you’ve viewed the video, you might want to know about the guy who made it and how he did it – info here.
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What do you believe?
August 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Almost everyone I know believes something that at best I feel has no credible evidence to support it and at worst I feel is absolutely crackers. What sort of beliefs am i thinking of? Well, here are 10 things that a proportion of UK adults said that they believed for a survey to mark the […]
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Randy Pausch’s last lecture
July 28th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Just over three months ago, I did a posting about the Last Lecture given by Randy Pausch, a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States who had been diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer and told that he had months to live. Sadly a few days ago, he died […]
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