I first read that Blue Peter, one the foundations of British Society has been implicated in the growing TV show fake phoneline scandal on The Register. At first I thought it was a spoof story, but it’s on the BBC so it must be true. Apparently a technical problem meant viewers calling for [...]

My first job after uni was with a firm of management consultants back when funny emails were just starting to get circulated. One of the funniest emails I received was a copy of a presentation a management consultant had sent to his girlfriend to explain in consultant-speak why she was being downsized i.e. [...]

Two of the biggest egos on the planet are currently going head to head.
As of yesterday, Richard Branson’s Virgin Media Group removed Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV channels, after Virgin Media refused to pay Sky’s unreasonable prices.
Sky’s channels include Sky One, Sky Travel, Sky News and Sky Sports News. It’s going to be an interesting [...]

February has been an interesting month in the UK. Everywhere you turn there is an ad for Broadband or Digital TV as all of the players have brought millions of pounds of advertising to try and dilute Virgin Media’s fronted by Uma Thurman. Uma is going to be paid a staggering $36m for [...]

Very busy day in my Google Reader yesterday thanks to 3GSM. I didn’t manage to get my unread count under 100+ today
Lots and lots of interesting reads though

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AMD reduce CPU prices
Google Using Search Engine Scrapers To Improve Search Engine Relevancy
Vodafone’s $11.1 billion passage [...]