Is the United States Going to Legalise On-Line Poker?
According to the BBC, some states are going to do this.
As many Americans do it anyway, prohibition is just publicity and good fortune to those outside US law.
I don’t actually care as anybody who plays on-line poker, probably needs his head examined. I don’t use casinos or poker sites on-line, but I have played cards for money in the past and do bet on horse racing and various events on-line.
Legalisation could be good for the UK, as many of the trustworthy sites have a UK element.
Farewell Elizabeth Taylor
Her death is sad this morning, but I have a confession to make. I only saw one of her films. And that was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Why The Full Dress Uniforms?
I know the attacking of Libya is serious, but why do the admirals of the United States Navy appear on TV, in full dress uniforms with all their medals and decorations?
Some have almost as many as Gaddafi!
The Holy Rosenbergs
This looks like a play worth seeing.
If You Want to Raise Money for Charity Get Your Kit Off
Comic Relief has been a big success this year, with over £74,000,000 raised on the night.
Chris Moyles raised a couple of millions by broadcasting continuously for over 50 hours. I once programmed for about 36 hours non-stop and I know how difficult that must have been. At least with the programming, I was testing the Artemis scheduler and I was driven by the bugs I kept finding.
He was also helped by fellow presenter, Fearne Cotton, who said she’d broadcast in a swimsuit, if he passed his target.
He did and the server to the webcam crashed.
Even the Telegraph deemed it fit to show pictures and video on their web site. What did Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells think? He was apparently unable for comment, as he was too busy trying t9 work out how to watch the video.
Punk Finance
This term caught my eye on the business pages of The Times.
Apparently it’s all about getting people and communities to take over businesses. The best example is FC United.
Apparently, the man begind this successful venture, Kevin Jaquiss, has been asked to help with solving the problem of the Royal Mail.
Paranoid About Japan’s Nuclear Plants
Everybody seems to be paranoid about Japan’s nuclear power stations.
I’ve been over several nuclear power stations. Would I be worred to live anywhere near any of them? Possibly, but only one that was in the United States that was a site in a very restricted position. I believe it has since been decommissioned. Look at these pictures by Sizewell. But these two stations were built in an area with little population and no earthquakes.
Properly designed, built and managed, we should have little worry about nuclear power plants. What we should worry about though is chemical plants and other industrial processes, which are close to centres of population.
Japan has built nuclear and chemical plants in areas with high seismic activity. I suspect that they won’t be doing so in the future. But what will that do for the Japanese economy?
The Independent Hints Fred the Shred Can’t Spell
This was in Christina Patterson ‘s piece in yesterday’s Independent.
Our rich may not be really, really rich, but they are such sweethearts. Just think of Bob Diamond, who went out of his way to explain to the rest of us the rules about banking and remorse. Or Fred the Shred. Who has, by the way, just got a superinjunction to stop him being called a banker. But perhaps he can’t spell.
What can she have been hinting at?
Incidentally, to my eyes any resemblance between Fred Goodwin and my image of the perfect banker is purely coincidental.
Life Follows Art
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is an iconic Japanese painting and as Ben Macintyre said in The TImes yesterday, it offers a grim reflection of reality.
Twibel
The papers are talking about the problems of libel associated with Twitter. Here’s the Daily Mail, on what happens when it all goes wrong.
It all looks to me like a nice new area for lawyers to earn a few pounds, dollars or euros.
But then it’s not the first tweet, it’s the repeating of that tweet to everybody else. So are we all guilty?
The Anonymous Widower 