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Army grinds to a halt.
With enough medals on his chest to open up a musume, General Sir Richard Dannatt declared at an enqiury into the Iraq conflict that the deployment of troops between Afganistan and Iraq has stretched the British Army to breaking points. The general had written to the Defense Minister, Des Browne to object to plans to…
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And the award for slow internet goes to Britain!
Akamai has released its first quarter state of the internet report. The results are not encouraging for the UK. We have once again, came in extremely slow.With the South Koreans comming in at the top, our speeds are quite truely diabolical. Ofcom recently reported the average speed to be around 5Mbps , in the study…
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Ultra-Fast Silicon Optical Network
I was recently observing that Fiber to the Home trials are under way – its a good step albeit many years late. Today Intel have decided to show off their new toy for the networking sector. Silicon Optical Fiber its a system that uses the advantages of silicon production: cost and speed of production most…
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Mad Major and Mad bike Prices
In this day and age one wonders where the major learned to count. In his latest plot, londoners will have the right to rent a bike for slightly more than renting a VW Polo. Prices based on a 24 hour period. At least the idea behind it is just. The price structure is intended for…
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UK Ministers summoned to US Senate committe to answer charges
The US Senators have in essence been trying to summon a duly democratically elected member of both the Scottish Parliament, and the Westminster Parliament to face charges of: Releaseing a Prisoner from a UK jail whom was found guilty in a UK Court, and banished from the UK by a UK Justice Minister. In what…
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No tea with the Queen for Mr Griffin
Many of you by now have likely heard that as a Member of the European Parliament, Mr Griffin, head of the barbaric fascist, racist organization known as the BNP had been invited to the Queens Tea Party today. Many including myself thought that this should never have happened. I am pleased that reports are comming…
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Stonehenge meet Woodhenge
It is likely that everyone, everyone in Britain at least knows of Stonehenge. Archaeologists have for a long time been comming up with suggestions of what it was for. Conspiricy theorists have also came up with their own ideas but truely no one left alive can truely know. Weather it was a burial site, a…
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Council spends £36,000 worth of tax money on games.
Tameside Council decided that in order to encourage people to access services, they would buy property in the online gaming world in Second Life. The property which would be worth about 10Million in game was intended to help people in the whole world access council services in Tameside. In addition to the island and town…
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Paid to find security bugs?
Security for most companies these days is paramount. There are many steps one can take to ensure that a system is secure, from switching it of at one extreme to hiring consultants to analyse every minute line of code to look for problems. Balancing money with time however leads to most companies taking somewhere in…