Monthly Archives August 2007

Valleywag’s interview with the accused Burning Man arsonist

Q: Can you take this man seriously? Q: Do you take yourself seriously?

Old folks get down with podcats, RSS (and Medicare)…

Guess my dry sense of humour just couldn’t resist this medicare skit - “its easy, its simple, and its the right thing to do”.

Could Lord Attenborough help the MLK National Memorial Project Foundation?

Lord Richard Attenborough appeared in front of me today on TV at the Nelson Mandela statue event in Parliament Square, London.
Funny how he disappears out of sight for a while, and now he’s back with today’s event, and then I’m sure for the 10th anniversary memorial for the Princess of Wales. The Richard Attenborough [...]

Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing?

Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing? It’s an interesting question, thanks to ‘eye on fda’.

‘Sicko’ gets ‘em talking

Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’ has been stirring up the US healthcare debate, according to new poll research from Kaiser Family Foundation. Maybe it will have a more positive effect than Fahrenheit 911?

Outsourcing Dr. King to China?

Looks like there’s some controversy (for example in the The Gibson Report posting of 27 August) bubbling up about the awarding of the contract to a Chinese sculpture for the main piece for the MLK Memorial in Washington, DC. I guess from an objective level it also raises interesting issues about best outsourcing practice, especially [...]

Hole is “not normal”

God, you really couldn’t make this stuff up. When some science guys find the largest hole in the universe, one of the guy says, quote: “What we’ve found is not normal.”

The Cotton Mill, Leicester

Looks like my purchase of an apartment at the Cotton Mill, King St, Leicester is going ahead with the help of Shirley. And the good news is that the council are planning to turn the street outside into a pedestrainised area - to be completed by August 2008..

Do you have a shy website?

Nice way of approaching the age-old question of making sites more engaging - make them less ’shy’.

Make your mark

Nice to hear the logo of the healthy schools programme, where I worked 2 hard for 4.5 years has not been granted trade mark status, as I was just thinking the other day it would be nice to re-use it:
“The Department of Health application for HEALTHY SCHOOLS (device-word) was refused. This application appears to be [...]