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Phils Column: Rage Against the Machines
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A collection of my essays and jottings - topical, political and occasionally sporting. Tuesday, 6 April 2010. Rage Against the Machines. Now, I've worked in IT project management for many years, and have come up through the ranks, analysis and programming. I do wonder where we are headed though! Where's the Turing Test? I called a credit card company today. Dialogue:. Them/IT: I am sorry I did not understand that. Can you tell me your 16 digit card number? I said Yes again and it still still looped.
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Phils Column: Should Gordon Brown have used the 'C' Word?
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A collection of my essays and jottings - topical, political and occasionally sporting. Saturday, 9 January 2010. Should Gordon Brown have used the 'C' Word? The high UK tax burden (more than 40% and growing) has been brought into sharp focus in the last few of months in the UK, but is really in the spotlight now as the General Election campaign gets underway, January week 1, 2010. Back to taxes and summer 2009. What did the Government do when the economy was headed down the tubes? C) Phil Marks 2010.
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Phils Column: Pay-per-Read Newsprint Decline - a new Business Model?
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A collection of my essays and jottings - topical, political and occasionally sporting. Sunday, 31 January 2010. Pay-per-Read Newsprint Decline - a new Business Model? Could it be that the e-reader is the way to go? Of course, 'printed' is an old term. As we move forward, there will be little in the way of hard-copy materialization of news, information and other formerly 'printed' material. E-readers will come into their own. Newspaper groups are already in trouble. Storage is typically from 512Mb upward,...
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Phils Column: Britain 'a crude colonial power in decline'
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A collection of my essays and jottings - topical, political and occasionally sporting. Friday, 17 June 2011. Britain 'a crude colonial power in decline'. I'm reading a good 'page-turner' thriller by James Marinero. Which takes a look into the future and the effect of Chinese superpower amibitions in the context of Britain's paltry maritime defence capability in the light of the Strategic Defence Review and the paying-off of our aircraft carriers in 2011. This is really depressing news, and just goes to s...
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Phils Column: Welcome Cynik-Politik - Target Driven Government is Dead
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A collection of my essays and jottings - topical, political and occasionally sporting. Friday, 8 January 2010. Welcome Cynik-Politik - Target Driven Government is Dead. Listening to Lord Mandelson of the multi-titled Ilk being interviewed on BBC Radio this morning, I realised that Target-Politik is dead. We now have Cynik-Politik. So, what do you do when you are patently failing to hit very publicly-set targets? This blog is for civilised debate, please comment accordingly. Some Other Interesting Blogs.
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Find a Soulmate: eHarmony - What You Should Know
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Soulmate Sunset in Brazil. Thursday, 4 March 2010. EHarmony - What You Should Know. Listen Here Click Here. Powered by Podbean.com. To join eHarmony is quite a challenge. There is a questionnaire to start with, and you do not know how much the subscription is until you have completed the questionnaire (though there are researchers who have set up trial memberships to find out, and published their findings on the web). Well, what about the joining process? I ploughed through the process (somewhat tongue-i...
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Find a Soulmate: What is a Soulmate?
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Soulmate Sunset in Brazil. Wednesday, 6 January 2010. What is a Soulmate? Let's look at some basic ideas of what a Soulmate is. If you have been lucky enough to have had time with a soulmate then you probably have your own list already. Instinctively thinking about one another at the same moment - phoning up only for the other person to say - oh, I was just thinking of you or just about to phone you. Having tremendous respect for that person's point of view. Sharing dreams and hopes for the future. If yo...
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Phils Column: Can we afford a Global Warming Data Scandal?
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A collection of my essays and jottings - topical, political and occasionally sporting. Wednesday, 20 January 2010. Can we afford a Global Warming Data Scandal? The ruckus over the alleged editing of the climate warming data at the University of East Anglia in the UK is another episode in the continuing saga of academic dishonesty that has beset scientific research so publicly in the last decade. For me, the case for man-made global warming is not yet proven (I do have some background in physics and ocean...