Just a reminder to every one before the weekend excesses cause some brain damage. Set your video (DVD-recorder etc) timers to keep an eye out for Channel 4 on Monday night when Richard Dawkins continues the documentary about religion being the root of all evil.

In the first episode of this two part documentary he spent a lot of time interviewing what could best be described as raging nutcases. If you were unlucky to have missed this episode there is a chance you can find it electronically for p2p systems like eMule or you can wait for Channel 4 to repeat it.

I would suggest though, that you ensure you dont miss part 2 on Monday 16 January 2006. If you dont live in the UK – unlucky, try p2p 🙂

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Leading on from the previous rant about people trying to divert attention from the real issue in debates, this months .net magazine gets a look at.

In the “the Big Question” section it outlines a quote from the Wall Street Journal which quotes Peter Sealey as saying he knows of “no other industry where marketers knowingly introduce a flawed product.” Now Mr Sealey is currently a marketing professor at UCSB and was the chief marketing officer at Coca-cola.

Overall, the “talking heads” (typing heads?) who reply give a reasonable description of the issues involved. None really justify the eternal-beta some software companies live in (can you hear this Google?) but one is interesting. Continue reading →

Well the latest .NET magazine is out now and in it you can see the 12 winners of the 2005 .net awards.

Not much to surprise anyone – 1&1 won the best web host (again) which is more than acceptable as that is who this domain is ultimately hosted with … 🙂

All the others were standard names – BBC, BlueYonder, Blogger, Faceparty, Amazon, Motley Fool, Cheap Flights etc.

Just in case you are curious, there is a cron job that changes the logo for this site at 1900 hrs and 0700 hours each day (based on the server clock).

Just a general muse now. We have asked the kindly compuskills web design team to set up a google site map to help get this blog noticed by the all mighty, all seeing Google and it got me thinking about how do we get noticed by “blog indexes.” Continue reading →