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...is likely to be a person who was in contact with her, but who chose to do nothing! The signs were all there a couple of short weeks ago. How many times has this happened before, and how many more times will it happen again? Amy only needed one true friend, and in the final countdown she had none! So take those tinsel-town tributes and file them in the WPB; if you knew her at all you should a least acknowledge her demise with a respectful silence.

Even hoarding gold isn't too sensible financial advice. It's already way way above any sustainable historic level; production is leaping as the price encourages more exploration/mining and bringing back into production formerly uneconomic mines. Plus there aren't too many real industrial uses for the stuff these days. Classic signs of a bubble market set to catch the financially naive. Far better to hoard something they don't make any more - like prime agricultural land.

Unfortunately the World isn't that simple, and your favourite people - politicians - have made it even more complicated than it needs to be. Who cared about some archduke no one had ever heard of getting shot in some place people had to refer to a map to find? The result of that insignificant event was that just about every family in our country had to bear a tragedy, and the entire World changed over the course of a very few years. We are teetering on the brink of another major event, this time an economic one. You will feel the results, and all around you. You'd be very wise to care!

I think that proposal would be a tiny bit provocative. But I'd have to say that when I went down to London by train some years ago after not having used the train for decades I was truly shocked by the gleaming North London skyline. Buildings totally out of character with our native architecture in almost every direction I looked, all in the name of the now discredited "multicultural society". This is often made worse by petty planning decisions by local authorities, refusing small near-inconsequential improvements to people's homes, whilst waiving-through monster buildings that look like they've been transported directly from a middle Eastern city. Nothing could be more calculated to stir resentment! The British sense of fair play assumes that others will adopt the same tolerant approach; when the other party doesn't understand even the basics of live and let live it's time for a major rethink!

Don't think so; Rupert has a plan, and he'll not throw away a 2.8M readership just like that. The Sun on Sunday or some other reincarnation is probably already on the screens. My favoured title for a scandal sheet: The Sunday Bugyoul - sorry Bugle!

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!