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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!

http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-13516796 This is good; when the big one comes there'll not be time to need to suffer any I-told-you-so from preachers.

Agree with the first part. The private sector is remarkably resilient if government gets off its back. Unfortunately they haven't done anything like enough in that direction. Sorry, you're not going to catch Italia in the debt trap! http://uk.reuters.co...E74M2HM20110523 And that's the on-the-books half of the economy! It's not really one country anyway; just a 150 year-old prototype of the EU. Unfortunately no one learned any economic lessons from the political stitch-up. Doubtless though we'll now be hearing troppo veloce, troppo presto from the left.

If there was an American on that list I might start to believe the rumours that the whole affair was a CIA set-up. But it's the pretty French lady for me! Can't comment on the Italy thing as I'd have to declare an interest, and it likely wouldn't be what you'd anticipate it to be.

A: Not as much as it did last week! What a total plonker; he's now let the fat-cat lawyers convince him he needs another injunction to stop the press contacting him! A monastery in Tibet would be far cheaper!

What a farce! Their Lordships refuse to retract the injunction, and the Beeb (on legal advice) opens the five-o'clock news with Ryan Giggs - Ryan Giggs - Ryan Giggs! Seems their Lordships haven't heard of the The Streisand Effect. AKA how to get maximum publicity for something which would pass fairly quietly otherwise.

Read more: http://www.itproport.../#ixzz1NBUZ9iC4 ..and when you send your iPhone 4 for repair or a replacement guess what you are likely to find when you get it back?

Well I can personally tell you it is not GGG - that's for sure! Lawyers from The Sun at the High Court at the moment to get the injunction revoked. Then we'll find out who it is! Isn't this exciting?!

Don't laugh, there's bound to be a get-out clause somewhere in the prediction. And.. falling for your own propaganda is something politicians do all the time. Elastic economic cycles and "tests" that only you can interpret are just parts of this delusion. When blaming someone else for your own stupidity starts to wear thin ("It's a global problem") you "get a bloody nose and learn from it". Then you selectively and quietly "admit past mistakes", and pretend you've reinvented yourselves, whilst appealing to the same bunch of irrelevant yet time-tested prejudices to start the cycle all over again. Preacher or politico, the public has a very short collective memory. And - to balance out those who did learn something - there's always a large bunch of wet-behind-the-ears suckers coming along.

Let no one mention who the footballer who doesn't want his name all over the papers and internet is! You know it's illegal, and wrong, and you simply mustn't do it! It's OK to mention Imogen Thomas though, because she doesn't have anything like as much cash. But I'd just like to say that I'm so disgusted by this behaviour that I'm never going to fly with his low-cost airline ever again! And, that's regardless of the number of 1p flights they offer me!

So... that settles the debate on whether it's genuine!