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Symptoms is definitely more a Marx type than a Wolfie Smith. Though I'm not sure which brother!

And today's Mole to Whack is..... http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-14038529 The more you hand out the more you may. Moral hazard (or rather the lack of same) is the term used by economists. But when - not if - the music stops... There, but for the demise of Gordon - Prudence - Brown, treads the UK! And, the nation doesn't even realise what a "damn close-run thing" it was!

I think it's intended to be ironic Malc. But granted you can never be quite sure with local one-size-fits-all socialists, and it could indeed be aspirational - they do often end up on the grouse moor themselves. c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Robens,_Baron_Robens_of_Woldingham

And if you want the full list of the 37 labour chiefs who "earn" over £100K you'll find it here: http://www.taxpayers...ichlist0611.pdf Wonder if they fiddle their expenses too? You'd probably have to in a job like that; times are tough!

Starting to look like exactly what the majority of the French public believed. This could backfire on the US; there's a very good chance that he will end up as French president!

..or has he joined Johnny Reb? ..or has his dickey ticker finally caught up with him? Tune in to next months thrilling episode of I'm dictator, but you can't get me out of here! - only on Bedlington.co.uk !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU8kYwqZKgM

http://www.bankrate....tell-you-1.aspx ..and remember, always turn left(ish) and head towards the back of the store without stopping to look at anything!

It's a bit like the period before WWII: most realistic people know it's going to happen, the politicos scramble around pretending that all is well and that it's simply a matter of right nuances in the negotiations. But the reality is that the only unknowns are, what will trigger the big one, and exactly when. This one is more historically accurate than the original (it seems). ...and that dog is the only one smart enough to be thinking ahead to where the next meal is coming from.

http://www.geeksugar.com/Nokia-N9-Features-Specs-Release-Date-17960270 http://economictimes...how/8951926.cms Remarks from tech-savvy iPhone users like "this is light years ahead of what iPhone 3G does", and "It just dwarfs the iPhone, the iPhone is nothing now" are encouraging. No clues as to a delivery date on the N9, and it looks like the "Developer Edition" N950 (not mentioned here) will be hard to get hold of and/or pricey. Just a matter of time before other phone manufacturers pick up on MeeGo though, so Elop's apparent lack of commitment and the staff dissatisfaction with him won't harm the long-term. It could even turn out to be a clever low-risk strategy to test market demand, then declare that "we have a surprise hit on our hands". He (unoriginally) calls it "disruptive technology", and he's certainly factored in the possibility of this happening. Wishful thinking that a "Microsoft plant" will turn out to be an advocate of open source? Stranger things have happened, and Elop comes from a company where hidden agendas are a way of life. Anyway, if the critics are right and this does turn out to be Nokia's last MeeGo phone, there will certainly be many more along from other manufacturers. LG is waiting for an opportunity to enter this market, but theirs will be with an Intel CPU.

It has been diagnosed! It's called Conservationareaitis! It's survivable in healthy areas, but when it strikes an already blighted community it can be terminal. It mutated from the one-size-fits-all-socialism virus.

Announcement next Tuesday (21st) in Singapore it seems. Departure of Rich Green not a good sign though.

..and he's still battling heroically to keep his name out of the newspapers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13785977 ..or maybe he just needs a damages award to pay his lawyers?

...and the fish 'n' chips tasted nicer wrapped in old newspaper - instant, zero-energy, recycling! Point of info: the satellite is actually 22,222 miles up in space not 2000. And a fair bit more than that from Bedders given the illumination angle and the longitude difference.

Well how wrong can you be??! It isn't going to use a 550, but a new Atom chip(set) that's aimed at the the ARM CPU market. And, it is going to be cheap cheap cheap at under $200 U.S. What's more the sub-$200 base product will be shipped with... wait for it.... MeeGo! So, a super thin netbook that weighs usefully under 1Kg; the most popular 10" screen size - so no compromises there then; and a fair bit more power than an ARM tablet - even the newer dual core ARM chips; plus near instant on with a decent OS booting out of ROM. Put that all together with the lack of overhead from a Java machine (c.f. Android); the ability to fit a HD and dual-boot Windoze; stir in the slimness of a Macbook Air(head) - but don't lose too many port connectors and hopefully a proper clip-in battery, and an ultra big track pad that's going to much better at point 'n' shoot than a low-precision pinkie on a capacitive screen. What do you have? A huge seller, and a real commercial winner! Likely the average person's first intro to MeeGo! (and, you thought I'd been droning on all this time about something which was never going to touch your life?). A return to the low-cost era which made the original EEE PC such a commercial success, and well timed for recessionary times too. Translate $US into £UK? Umm... don't thing they are going to quite get away with that, despite the UK VAT man. Anyway, my 200 minus one smackers are on the table anyway; when can I have one? If that doesn't look particularly cool to you just wait until you actually have one in your hand? £600 quid for an ARM powered tablet?! Think that more-money-than-sense market just hit the buffers folks!

A real product or another "concept device"? Well it is an Asus, and presumably it (they) run Android. Defo a really really thin netbook coming real soon from Asus though. I presume this will have an Atom 550 dual core CPU, and be overpriced by £100 at UK launch - like most Asus devices seem to be these days.

'Course it's self-contradictory and disjointed, it starts with EU! Anyway... at last a solution to the financing problem: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilsole24ore.com%2Fart%2Ftecnologie%2F2011-02-18%2Fsolare-pugliese-mafie-101341.shtml%3Fuuid%3DAaHI0G9C&act=url

By definition it's dodgy - it's That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds!

The plot thickens! It's starting to look like there is more than one Nokia MeeGo phone lined-up for early release. The one with the keyboard in the teaser is a developer edition. The consumer one won't have a keyboard, and will be released a few weeks later. Likely the one pictured in the video IS an N950 (to follow on from the present N900), and the N9 will be the mass market phone. The N9 seems to have very much better hardware, to outshine the iPhone on both hardware and software counts; so even keyboard lovers will hesitate before buying the N950. Interesting times!

So too slow, too late then? Better tell Red Ed! Meanwhile, in the previous country which staged an Olympic Games it couldn't possibly afford: http://coveringdelta...eek-parliament/ Just goes to show how dumb Gordo really is; all that UK gold he blew, and not an ounce of it bounced back to him!

You're in the wrong countries for bimbo-politico malc!

Yes, indeed! Those were the days! Mind you I had to stand in the queue behind the miner's wives for our four ounces. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_3728000/3728225.stm Everyone's cooked ham started to come to an end about 1964. Never quite figured that one out!

If you are daft enough to still be using BT Internet, then you're probably daft enough not to care. Never give BT Internet any kind of direct debit - they will steal from your account!

Sort of. But when I lived in the Market Place, and ran errands for mum, all the cars were shiny black, and hadn't grown fins. There was also The Market Cross Stores off the left of this photo. Think that's where I got the bread; Barnes' was generally for a quarter of a pound of cooked ham! Good one though!