Ed Dowding

Here’s the BBC Adventure Show take on the Artemis Great Kindrochit
Quadrathlon I competed in earlier this year. There’s a hukka from
yours truly at about 1m30s, and a few other clips here and there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dsr32/

This is a great ad for a funeral arrangements company!

I need to blog more. Or less. Maybe just better quality.

A thought provoking comment from the Slashsot comments:

“Google started off running on Stanford equipment, and was spun off,
as happens frequently at Stanford. Sun and Cisco also started with
Stanford people and equipment.

Stanford has become a real estate company and a venture capital firm
that runs a university on the side for the tax break. It’s working out
very well; they now have $21.6 billion in investment assets, including
a big chunk of Google. This started around 1991, when the financial
management operation was spun off as a separate company. The financial
operation invests in venture pools, which in turn fund venture
capitalists, which fund startup companies, some of which become big.
They can draw on expertise from the academic side to help evaluate
investments. It’s working quite well; annualized returns for the past
decade were 15.1%. Tax free!”

Source: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/09/05/1944214&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=24894081

“The decree says the aim is to centralize and analyze data on people
aged 13 or above who are active in politics or labor unions, who play
a significant institutional, economic, social or religious role, or
who are “likely to breach public order.”

The information that can be collected includes addresses, phone
numbers, email addresses, physical appearance, behavioral traits,
fiscal and financial records, and details about people who have
personal ties with the subject.

“There is nothing in the decree that sets limits or a framework.
Whether the database is used with or without moderation depends only
on orders from up high. The electronic Bastille is upon us,” he wrote.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26544510/