"No sooner was this blanket surveillance in place, when the flow of audiocassettes dried up. Clearly, Saddam’s contacts among the TV personnel and other objects of surveillance had warned him to lie low and observe total electronic hush so as not to give his hideout away." Very clever of him to remain hidden.

1422 Also posted to: warBlog . At: 7:34:54 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: Electronic Pursuit of Saddam and Coalition Fortress in Baghdad

"According to the report, 61% of calls to the Thus service requesting business numbers were answered correctly. But this figure dropped to 33% for residential numbers, making Thus the least accurate service for home number inquiries."

Lucky for me I didn't want to advertise in the Yell version of 118, sure it may be more accurate, but I think very few will call for, "a local web designer, please."

1421 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 7:12:11 PM  . .
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Other title(s) for this story: 4 out of 10 118 calls are accurate

I must figure a way to add video to these kid notes. To see him bungle about the kitchen and to listen to the highest pitch squeaks of delight. Heaven. Makes all the money more than worth while.

1420 Also posted to: personal . At: 11:56:31 AM  . .
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How much can two kids pack into two hours? First it was the painting, then the tents, then the dolls (below) who were invited to a party. Then, Bradley comes home from school also, and it's dressing up time, he as a pirate, she as a fairy bride, I think. "Daddy can you help?" That's too many babies Esme." "Daddy can you help? PLEASE!!!!"

1419 Also posted to: personal . At: 11:55:41 AM  . .
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You could have a shop that notices that you are wearing a Versace clothes and vary the level of services and prices accordingly "

I have heard about these tags but not realised that they were in such wide spread use. Nor, that their effective range was only 10 metres. But why worry that your clothes size is being transmitted around the shop? Vanity!

I don't like the idea of a burglar scanning my house to see what goodies are inside, but sure there'll be some effective way to stop this.

On the whole I like the idea, and there'll be plenty of benefits for the consumer to come out of this technology. Less shop lifters and thus lower prices is one.

1418 Also posted to: cyberSaps . At: 11:09:28 AM  . .
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"and she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China" One of my favourite songs, and now I know who she is and some of the story. Will this change the song for me? I'll find out as I play it now.

Lindsay German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition said that the attacks in Istanbul were an inevitable consequence of the war. "I hate to say we told you so, but we have been saying from the beginning that the war with Iraq would inevitably lead to more terrorist attacks.

War or now war in Iraq, we'd still be under more and more terrorist attacks.

I'm getting more and more angry at the prominence of anti war demonstrators. Whether it's 70,000 or 200,000, that's still a tiny number of nutters. I used to think that it was a good thing, a check on our sanity. But now I see them as ill-conceived. And when London has suffered the first WMD attack, they'll be saying, 'told you so,' still. We could lay down and let these terrorists tickle our tummies and still they'd try to kill millions of non muslims.

1416 Also posted to: warBlog . At: 10:30:09 AM  . .
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Techies tend to be sidelined in key decision-making and are disconnected from the management mainstream. In effect, low-tech managers are forcing the UK economy into a low tech equilibrium.

This really pisses me off. I see this so often and hear, anecdotally from those techies, of idiotic management decisions spending orders of magnitude too much on pissy projects, and pennies on mission criticals.

I agree about the IT literacy tests. Especially in the 'jobs for life' UK Civil Service.

1415 Also posted to: cyberSaps , GOWM . At: 10:21:00 AM  . .
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"South Korea is embarking on a huge project to make its national broadband network even faster spending £1.06bn to upgrade their network."

Very aggressive, apparently they forced schools to use the net more.

1414 Also posted to: Broadband Britain . At: 10:15:43 AM  . .
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"From birth to leaving university at age 21 it costs parents £140,398 to feed, clothe and school their children."

No Wonder I'm always poor. £46,000 in the first five years? Mine are 5 years 65 days and 3 years 21 days . So that's £46k + £27k = £73,000

I think I'll send 'em back to the shop.

1413 Also posted to: personal . At: 10:00:51 AM  . .
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