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Initial reactions to Google Chrome
Having been using Google Chrome for a couple of hours now, on and off, how does it stack up? These are a few personal first impressions.
New browser war in the offing?
Google is all set to launch a beta (public testing) internet browser called Chrome, fuelling speculation that a new ‘browser war’ is in the air.
‘Nobody expects the Muslim Imposition’
To misquote the famous Monty Python line. Respect for the faith of others – essential. Tolerance – absolutely. Consideration – admirable. But to impose the rules of any one religion upon others is surely going far too far. Yet this appears to be the case with Tower Hamlets Council in East London.
Jobsworths with powers?? Has someone got a roo loose in the top paddock?
Jobsworths are already pains in the proverbial, imagine them with powers!! Well, that seems to be the way things are going at the moment as the Labour Government seeks to devolve more policing powers. Several newspapers are already dubbing it ‘Stasi Britain’, a reference to the notorious former East German Secret Police.
Haven’t they got better things to do?
Tunbridge Wells Council banned the word ‘brainstorming’ on the grounds that they thought it might offend epileptics (which it didn’t) and replaced it with the phrase ‘thought shower’. Now, Chichester Council has decided to remove ‘the man in the street’ from the muncipal language because ‘it is not a fair reflection of reality and makes either the views or work …
So what is the point?
At a time when people are being supplied with all sorts of different bags and bins for recycling purposes and half-blind pensioners are fined for putting the wrong coloured bottle into a particular recycling bin, the following may come as no surprise. Ron, who keeps us supplied with all the loony goings on back in the Asylum, carefully sorts the …
Mr Bean’s new site…
Number 10 has revamped its website and is now using WordPress, the blogging platform. You can see all the latest news (about the PM mostly), all the latest pictures (of the PM mostly), watch videos (yes, you guessed, mostly of the PM), take an interactive tour of Number 10 Downing Street and take a look at the flowers in the …
A weighty matter…
Mia Cousins, who lives in Fareham, was a little annoyed when she found that her four sacks of grass cuttings had not been taken away by the binmen and a note had been left saying they were ‘too heavy’. Seven stone Mia had had no problem carrying them the fifty metres to the roadside collection point and so she was …
Winehouse dig declared funniest Fringe joke
A dig at troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been declared the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe festival. The inaugural comedy award was the result of a public vote on the digital comedy channel ‘Dave’ and was won by comedienne Zoe Lyons. Her winning one-liner was…