by cameron | Mar 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
An interesting paragraph below from a Times story on Simon Mann’s upcoming TV interview to be aired in the UK.
Mann is a mercenary in prison in Equitorial Guinea on charges of an attempted coup. He has apparently done an interview from prison where he names the high-ranking British business people (including Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British PM Maggie Thatcher) and, perhaps, politicians, who supported the attempted coup.
Two interesting things here:
1. The below paragraph indicates that Scotland Yard dropped their investigation of the coup after the London bombings. Note to self: if the cops are ever getting too close to my illegal activities, activate some of the fundamentalist patsies I have on standby to distract the authorities’ attention until I can shred the evidence.
2. Mann’s wife has been trying to stop the interview from going to air, even though his captors have indicated that they may show him leniency on account of the interview. Why would she do that? Who is she trying to protect – and why?
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Simon Mann’s TV interview may reveal backers of failed coup
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The interview could put pressure on Scotland Yard to revive its own investigation, which was dropped so that police could shift resources to the 7/7 and 21/7 bombings.
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by cameron | Mar 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
teh interwebs is slow in france
by cameron | Mar 8, 2008 | Podcast
Jeremy Toeman is an expert in digital media and consumer technology. Over the past ten years he has designed, built, and marketed numerous award-winning products in the “convergence†space, including the Slingbox.
In December 2007, JT arranged for 25 SF geeks, including Ryan Block from Engadget and Robert Scoble from , to do some volunteering work at the San Francisco Food Bank. I caught up with Jeremy for a chat yesterday about “Geeks Doing Good”, his motivation to volunteer, why geeks should give back more, etc.
Jeremy’s blog
Donors Choose
Today’s Track:
Barry Adamson
“Who Killed Big Bird?” (mp3)
from “Stranger On The Sofa”
(Central Control)
Buy at Official Barry Adamson website
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by cameron | Mar 7, 2008 | technology
Google *finally* has sorted out the problem of keeping your Outlook or Pocket Outlook calendar in synch with your Google Calendar. Even though I’ve been doing this for some time now using SyncMyCal, this sounds MUCH cleaner. Thank you Google! I love you. And thanks to Hugo Sharp for the tip off!
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Product Manager, Google Calendar
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| now I can access my calendar at home or on my laptop, on Google Calendar or in Outlook. When I add an event to the Outlook calendar on my laptop, Google Calendar Sync syncs it to my Google Calendar — and since I also have Google Calendar Sync running on my desktop, the event then syncs from Google Calendar to Outlook calendar on my desktop. All of my calendar views are always up to date, and I can choose whichever one I want to use. |
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by cameron | Mar 6, 2008 | TPN
Once again, TPN’s fearless VP of Stuff, Ewan Spence, has caught the big white bird from his home in Edinburgh to Austin Texas for South By Southwest. Catch his shows from there starting today on TPN’s Tech Conference Show.
