Monthly Archives: September 2006

Last pus blow to chanty

Posted on September 7, 2006 by acb

I was writing a quickie for Ariel, the BBC in house magazine, about the new Google archive news service and thought I would, you know, check how well it worked. So I typed in “Ampthill Claimant” as an example of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Time on their hands

Posted on September 6, 2006 by acb

There are currently on Cafepress 2,030 different slogans, verbal and visual, commemorating the expulsion of Pluto from the register of planets. These are available on 35,100 products. The page I am looking at (thanks, Jeremy) claims to rank them by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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on not having opinions

Posted on September 5, 2006 by acb

I note that I haven’t blogged, or wanted to, about big stories for a while. In particular, the war in Iraq and the Anglican schism (which does, absurd though it seems, actually matter) have both seemed subjects actively repulsive. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Google and privacy: it’s worse than that

Posted on September 3, 2006 by acb

A friend of mine, a very well-connected professor of computer sciences — he knows who he is, and so, if he’s right, do the CIA, the FBI, and so on — writes about the Google piece last week: Had only … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Remembering Blair

Posted on September 1, 2006 by acb

Can it be that Iraq will be forgotten, and he will be remembered instead as the man who abolished the hereditary peerage and replaced it with hereditary Asbos? Continue reading →

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