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Newspapers deserve to die

Posted by Graeme in Media at 1:46 am on Saturday, 20 December 2008

We all know newspapers are slowly dying. Competition from the internet may be one cause, but newspapers hardly help themselves by simply being so bad. The Guardian has a great example in Zoe William’s whine about how her baby is more affectionate towards his father than to her. (more…)

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The Wall Street Journal gets spun

Posted by Graeme in Internet,Wrong at 5:29 am on Tuesday, 16 December 2008

The Wall Street Journal seems to have been completely fooled by telecoms spin-doctors into claiming that Google, and other prominent advocates of net neutrality, have changed their views.

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The internet is easy to censor

Posted by Graeme in Internet,Politics at 4:56 pm on Wednesday, 10 December 2008

It has often been said that the internet is hard to censor because “it treats censorship as a defect and routes around it”. This could not be more wrong, the internet is the easiest medium to censor. (more…)

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Teachers against learning

Posted by Graeme in parenting at 1:41 pm on Wednesday, 10 December 2008

I have always had doubts about how well IT is, or even can, be taught in schools. It seems to reach its very worst in the case of a teacher who confiscated a pupil’s property to prevent them learning about a technology the teacher seems to have some sort of ignorant grudge against.

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Dandelion web server

Posted by Graeme in Internet,Software at 6:56 am on Friday, 5 December 2008

I have written a small lightweight pure TCL web server called Dandelion — because it is small and light, like Dandelion seeds, and I am no good at thinking up names (its a better name than GIMP though, and that has been pretty succesful!).

More details on the Dandelion server download page.

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