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GWAFFTEY — is web 2.0 now just eight things?
Google. Wikipedia. Amazon. Facebook. Flickr. Twitter. Ebay. YouTube. Has web 2.0 now settled down to these eight things? These aren't necessarily the biggest sites, but they are the sites which get referred to again and again online and offline. More than 'websites', which is what the internet was to most people five years ago, these define what [...]
Four heads that defined the world
In the British Museum, London, the curators have placed four remarkable sculptured heads together. They are not remarkable as sculptures — they are all Roman copies of lost Greek originals. They remarkable by juxtaposition — the four great schools of Greek philosophy represented either by their founders or principal exponents. Sokrates, [...]
No attic — no cash; house-prices rise
We bought our first house in 1996, a snip at £53,000. It was very nearly our undoing: nine months later Gordon Brown came to the Exchequer, abolished MIRAS, abolished married person's allowance, and suddenly our joint income was not enough to pay the mortgage. But 1996 was at the bottom of the previous house price dip. Friends who had bought a [...]
Turkey, the BNP, David Cameron, and Human Rights
The BNP has spoken "Turkish membership of the European Union as espoused by political traitor David Cameron will avenge the defeated centuries-old Muslim attempt to seize all of Europe and will finally extinguish western civilisation on the Continent, the British National Party has warned", according to its website. I'm not posting a link, as I [...]
