I’m not a huge fan of The Times, and I’d be happy if Rupert Murdoch got trapped in a cave and had to spend his remaining years munching moss and repenting for his sins. However, I’m nonetheless disappointed by the general reaction to The Times’s plans to start charging for web content (source: BBC). The [...]

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Opera’s having fun with Apple. After months of ‘will they or won’t they’ uncertainty regarding Opera Mini’s status, the company has finally submitted the app, and has placed a cheeky ‘countup’ timer on its website. Almost immediately, Mashable fired up its bullshit machine, with Stan Schroeder stating the following in the article Opera Mini Submitted [...]

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Being a tech and gaming writer, I don’t talk about politics much on this blog, but I’ve been following the attempts of the Democrats to reform healthcare in the US closely. As someone who lives in a country with a fairly robust healthcare system, it beggars belief that any developed nation could allow its citizens [...]

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