It is a symptom of madness if one takes a close interest in politics and history? Oh boy! I am stark raving at that rate! And if wearing a face-mask to avoid germs is mad, there sure are a lot of crazy Japanese. See the picture of Japanese students in a lecture hall above The [...]

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Public Service workers balked at the idea that government pensions might be cut. The answer, so the unions claimed, was to stage a major walk out. The numbers are still being tallied, but it appears that more than a million public service workers took Wednesday off. Was it successful? Well it depends on your point [...]

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A new law goes into effect today that makes it illegal to dismember or desecrate a body to conceal it from the police in North Carolina now which was triggered after little 10 year old Zahra Baker was killed and her body was dismembered and her body parts were scattered out in order to cover [...]

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There are few people that can genuinely say that they love their job, but I am one of them. I never know what wonderful delight will appear in my mailbox. A case in point is Mark Evan Walker’s new book The Case Of The Blood Red Stars. I first encountered Mark because of his outstanding [...]

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As if there are not enough wonderful ways to fritter the day away online, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to name but a few, Google has now got into the act. In a glorious piece of high tech nerding they have rolled out a truly amazing piece of nerdery with the latest upgrade to Google Analytics. [...]

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Governments seem to be suckers for computer salesmen who tell them that computerizing their operations will save them money and allow them to operate more efficiently. It doesn’t happen. The one certainty is that the process will cost way more than budgeted and the big uncertainty is whether it will work at all. I could [...]

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