Posted in Health, Humanity, Internet, Relationships, Society, Technology, tagged AIDS, chat, communication, condom, divorce, email, Internet, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, STD, STI, videocall, VOIP, webcams on July 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »
One story which has been causing a fair amount of sniggers in the press this week is a research report by the UK Health Protection Agency indicating that sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young. (The overall rate of [...]
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Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged cellphone, Cortado, email, Gmail, Google Mail, mobile phone, phone, push on June 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Apologies to many of my regular readers for a second ‘techie’ blog in one week, but I need to get it out of my system. I will return to my normal subjects next week - I promise. It’s just that I have recently discovered something else (see Backup!) that I find really useful and I [...]
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Those creative and incredibly generous people at Mozilla are releasing version 3 of the world’s best browser (in my humble opinion) tomorrow (June 17), and are trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records by having the most downloads in anyone day. You can find out more about Firefox 3 and how to [...]
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Posted in Existential, Faith, Internet, Relationships, Religion, tagged anti-Christ, apocalyptic, Christian, email, Rapture on June 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
When the roll is called up yonder, I won’t be there. Which is good, because I’m not too sure what I should have said in the emails I was meant to leave behind.
I was amused last week by a story from Paul Sims on the New Humanist Blog about a really valuable new use [...]
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Posted in Internet, Morality, Society, Technology, tagged 80097, Alison DeLauzon, BlackBerry, camera, cellphone, digital, electric, Eye-Fi, Florida, GadgetTrak, Internet, iPhone, iPod, mobile, New York, phone, satellite navigation, security, shaver, Skype, software, theft, wireless on June 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I wonder what you would want on yours?
Alison DeLauzon from New York had something on hers that she never knew about, but it proved really useful.
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Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged address book, backup, cellphone, free, mobile phone, Mobyko, Mozy, Mozy4free, online, secure, storage, sychronization on May 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I think I’ve discovered something genuinely useful and am sharing this with you in the hope that if I am seriously mistaken, you will be able to point out the problems that I haven’t seen.
I stumbled across Mobyko - a free (yes, it really does seem to be free) system for backing up your mobile [...]
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Posted in Human Rights, Internet, Morality, Society, Technology, tagged complaints, deception, door-stepping, Facebook, Internet, journalism, journalists, Meebo, MySpace, newspapers, PCC, press, Press Complaints Commission, Web on March 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A consultation is being undertaken in the UK by the industry watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), to look into the use, by newpapers, of material taken from public social networking sites. Apparently people are complaining that the information they made available to the public via sites such as MySpace, Meebo, and Facebook has [...]
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Having the right of free speech, doesn’t give you the right to repeatedly and unwantedly invade someone else’s privacy. At least, that’s what the Virginia Supreme Court has decided, and I, for one, am pleased.
Jeremy Jaynes, considered to be one of the world’s top 10 spammers in 2003, was recently convicted in Virginia for [...]
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Posted in Censorship, Government, Internet, Morality, Philosophy, Technology, tagged ISP, broadband, Internet Service Providers, downloads, piracy, music, illegal downloads, creation-without-reward, theft, stealing on February 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There are press reports in the UK that the government is seriously considering legislation to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads. It is estimated that 6 million broadband users illegally download files each year.
I don’t, for a minute, doubt that piracy is responsible for a slump in the [...]
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Posted in Internet, Language, Other Blogs, Technology, Uncategorized, tagged culture, Flickr, blogs, blogging, publishing, YouTube, creativity, book reviews, Prospect, Waterstones, Tesco, William Skidelsky, Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur on February 19, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Apparently the Internet is killing culture, and the biggest culprit is the blog. According to one writer, I must therefore be one of the biggest criminals around, responsible for the collapse of Western civilization as we know it. It is a heavy burden of blame to bear, but somehow I manage to carry [...]
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