Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Google 'eager' to work with Republicans. Nice.
They have already proved themselves "Eager to work with the CCP" when it comes to cracking down on dissidents. To be fair, it is fairly normal for any market-leading firm to make sure it gets into bed with the right people. What is irritating in the Google case, is that they try and put across the "message" that they are new, different, modern, above that, etc. Better if they took the line which has worked for, say, Exxon, for years "we are a big bad motherf*cker of an oil company, so shut up and stop bothering us".
Hmmm. Since Google hosts this blog for free...
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They have already proved themselves "Eager to work with the CCP" when it comes to cracking down on dissidents. To be fair, it is fairly normal for any market-leading firm to make sure it gets into bed with the right people. What is irritating in the Google case, is that they try and put across the "message" that they are new, different, modern, above that, etc. Better if they took the line which has worked for, say, Exxon, for years "we are a big bad motherf*cker of an oil company, so shut up and stop bothering us".
Hmmm. Since Google hosts this blog for free...
Monday, September 11, 2006
British officer resigns over 'grotesquely clumsy' war in Afghanistan
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"We've been grotesquely clumsy. We've said well be different to the Americans who were bombing and strafing villages, then behaved exactly like them"
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Looking south across downtown Maputo at the weekend., from a tall building at the heart of the business district. A beautiful blue sky, marred only by the huge, polluting particulate plume pouring out from the cement factory across the river in Matola. Looks much worse with the naked eye.
Friday, September 01, 2006
My parents' house was full for some of the time we were en Ecosse, so me and Nina stayed in this nearby shack...
