Amazon having a laugh? Mr Benn’s address.

George Galloway seems to be slowly turning himself into Elvis Costello.

Fairly easy to guess which is the cooking wine today and which is the drinking wine!

You know, some days I wonder if things are just being made up as they go along.... www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

What, like George Clooney or Ryan Reynolds? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a wonderful world we live in. An ex-president sentenced to prison (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), the current US president a convicted felon. Our own prime ministers found guilty of criminal behaviour (not quite on the scale of the above).

As a one-off (or maybe a few), this story wouldn't really matter in the scheme of things. But we can guess that this isn't a one-off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rather than having a new "rule" in our so-called wonderful NHS, shouldn't we be asking what action was taken against the doctors and the surgery in question? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone thinking that the concept of VR spectacles is a good idea just needs to read "Brave New World" to realise what a mess we would get into.

I think Trump just announced his new perfume "Abba, by Jean". Oh no, sorry Azerbaijan.

We appear to be entering a new censorship era. The US has bullied Jimmy Kimmel into silence (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) while the French president is being forced to prove his wife is a woman (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

Hank Scorpio now the world’s richest man.

Looking forward to listening to "Creg" later, but I suspect Apple won't have anything to offer me in this cycle. Is it time for a new product category?

I wonder how long it will be before we go back to physically segmented networks that require physical desktop access, rather than the convenience of ubiquitous networks? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rarely have I read such a well-written (and probably highly accurate) book review. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

This story isn't be about whether the Police should be policing social media or not. It's about the process. Linehan didn't need to be met by five armed officers (assuming they were all armed) immediately leaving a flight. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sadly, all of these cars stink and stink badly, as my children would say. Who wants to buy any of these legacy European brands (or a crappy Ford)? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have decided that delivery folk don't know if we have a working doorbell because they can't hear it (most knock and ring). I suspect it's the RING effect, where the doorbell itself rings outside.

First time playing Padel this morning. Interesting mix of tennis & squash. Relatively expensive, but entertaining!

And so it goes on - Intel Corporation to get $2 billion investment from SoftBank. (1/5) www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/i...

Don't it make you feel good that Stefan Dennis will be on Strictly Come Dancing this year? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This minor rant from ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett highlights some very interesting points. (1/8) fortune.com/2025/08/10/e...

Another meaningless press release. They could have had one customer, now they have two? Generally, I avoid the detail of percentage-based growth data. If you can't or won't show absolute numbers, than they're irrelevant. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...?

This announcement is akin to people saying they're going to use a certain brand of tyres on their car. (1/3) americas.kioxia.com/en-us/busine...

We have friends who live in Gravelines. I've paddled in the water at the beach and can confirm it's warm like a bath. Possibly the reason the jellyfish are doing so well? www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/f...

TACO TACO TACO!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This doesn't feel like the "normal" business a government should be doing. Instead it feels more like an extortion racket. Just sayin. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The smartmeter rollout has been a total disaster. We were lucky to get a gen 2 device (because I waited), which has survived the move between suppliers. But does it provide any useful information to me? No. www.theregister.com/2025/08/09/s...

Quite surprised to see dial-up is still active, but in the US it operated differently. I don't know if local calls are still free, but that's what differentiated UK from US dialup. www.theverge.com/news/757194/...

America seems to be turning into a nasty country in places.

Every time I see a story like this (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...), I'm reminded of the Futurama episode "The Problem with Popplers" where they attempt to pass off an orangutan as Leela.

USA is not on my current destination list, either for personal or business reasons. I'm sure lots of other folks think the same, which will undoubtedly be having an effect on Las Vegas. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...

The inexorable increase in PCIe performance looks set to continue with PCIe 8.0. I think it's unlikely the spec will be used directly on SSDs, but remember the way Fibre Channel migrated to optical cables and became the dominant connectivity feature for storage. www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/p...

Let's just wait until he delivers on the superintelligence AI first of all, rather than pontificating on what will or will not be open sourced. After all, the open source situation is moot until then.

This is an interesting observation. Remember the days of that thing called "on-premises infrastructure"? Well, guess what, some businesses used to ensure dual supplier for just these kinds of scenarios. It's 101 risk management. (1/4) www.techradar.com/pro/uk-firms...

Interesting to see Acumera, Inc acquiring Scale Computing and renaming under that brand. Reverse takeover of sorts, perhaps? www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Translation: Man desperate to sell product tells world you can't survive without his product. www.tweaktown.com/news/106743/...

One is real, one is fake! It’s fairly obvious which! Real chilli is from this year’s crop (Hungarian Long).

Makes a change from seeing a crashed Windows server.

It never was 10,000 steps but it’s an easy round number. A bit like the alcohol consumption guidelines when first created. Made up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This morning’s gardening tags now printed!

Today is the real Pi Day (22/7) based on the rough approximation we were taught at school.

Add this to the list of products, divisions or platforms Intel has recently divested or killed off. It's like watching Google. www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

The headline of this story tells you everything you need to know about why Meta's AI should be avoided. www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/m...

What this discussion fails to investigate is the business model. Meta will spend literally hundreds of billions of dollars and there's no discussion on ROI or how that investment will be repaid. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

Excessive "Hand shaking". That's a new term for it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s quite interesting to see how many songs on Live Aid feature saxophone - Sade, Boomtown Rats, Spandau Ballet at a minimum.

Watching Live Aid 40 on BBC, so old yet seems hardly any time ago at all.

Undoubtedly, carbon capture is a good idea, if it can be done effectively at source. However, other than being good for our emissions targets, what's the financial value? This article doesn't make clear if the UK owns the carbon capture technology or not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How to tell you are old. Everything “drops” now. Whereas in my day it was published or released. I genuinely read a post recently and thought a vendor had discontinued their product due to the use of “dropped”.