Category Archives: Don’t ask me

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> A Durban IT company pitted Winston, an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick, against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom. Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles. In … Continue reading →

> Bernard Hickey featured this chart the other day, illustrating how American consumers went on a spending binge over the last 20 years or so (and don’t forget – this is year-on-year change. I’d hate to see the cumulative effect). … Continue reading →

> At least the fact that my favourite clothing store is thinkgeek.com appears to exclude my being a dork or a nerd. But who knows..?

> Birgit S’s girl (I use the term loosely..) friends seem to have been flattered at being categorised as “Desperate Housewives”“Crikey” said the salesgirl “was there a RUSH…?! All these women from Klein-Winternheim just DESCENDED on the place and started … Continue reading →

> Here And if it sounds familiar, here’s the interview with CBS’s Katie Couric: ” . . . where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about … Continue reading →

> Cousin Dave reports: After having dug to a depth of 10 metres last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more … Continue reading →

> Robin (who’s too young to remember Jamuna the elephant..) over at RCB nudged me in the direction of Personas, an MIT project that “creates a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the … Continue reading →