The Guardian’s Money section are reporting that Britain’s pension deficit is increasing with the increase of life expectancy figures. Oh, hooray! A public-sector pensions deficit of £1 trillion is just what this country needs. I’m so glad that my parent’s generation and their parent’s are buying yachts - while those stupid enough to remain in this country will pay the price for it.
Koz: the reason that Steve Jobs doesn’t blog is simple. He’s an übermensch - we, the customers, are mere peons. Does the King care what the Serf thinks?
Jesus and Mo don’t get evolution. “;->”
Erik J. Barzeski has some iTunes AppleScripts that he uses. I could do with some AppleScripts that remove a few of iTunes’ annoyances. If you want AppleScripts for iTunes, this site has ‘em.
Harriet Harman gets political bullshit of the day award: “There will be change. But it will not be change for change’s sake. It will be change because of the changed circumstances of today.” (Via Stephen Pollard)
Orange: almost back in good books
I phoned Orange this morning to try and sort out yesterday’s problems. It took about 20 minutes to resolve - but they refunded the money that was removed from my credit and gave my today’s access for free as a courtesy. That’s not bad.
Would you go back to 1973? That is the question. The answer: absolutely not. No chance at all. I’d visit 1973 like I’d visit anywhere north of Cambridge - as a curiosity, not a practical reality. I couldn’t live without the Internet - and I would go mad living in Britain in the seventies - I get only about 95% electric uptime - I couldn’t imagine living with electricity available only three days a week. Think about it: 1973 or 2006? I’d choose 2006 any day.
Good to see that the commentariat aren’t immune to a bit of gender stereotyping. Fuck - it’s the afternoon now, and I’ve yet to finish the bile bingo.
An article that’s been hanging on my coat-tails waiting to be posted - SXSW are having a panel about ‘tag skepticism’. I’m a tag skeptic - I use tags on some services - del.icio.us for instance - but I think that their use is limited. A lot of people don’t grok tags - and the complete lack of tagging standards is annoying. I prefer an extensible ontology - that has outlining and multiple terms etc. Quite how you make it practical to do so is something I’m not sure about, but we can do better than tagging.
Oh, wow. The “mobi” TLD is going live today. The excitement is just suffocating me. About the only thing that TechCrunch UK can say is that it’s increasing a lot of buzz. The mobile Internet has enough buzz - it hasn’t quite got the economics right.
Amazon UK has me pegged - my homepage is showing me: Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, Roland Barthes’ The Semiotic Challenge and the DVD of Revenge of the Nerds I & II.
