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Year: 2006

The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans.

The Music Industry is Battling Illegal Downloading by Suing Music Fans. An excellent petition that I can encourage you to sign. Yes a record company company AGAINST suing its fans for downloading music Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not […]

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Who would have thought…..

Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful […]

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Who would have thought…..

Amazing to find this on an official McDonalds blog:- Accelerating beef production was raising the levels of greenhouse-gas CO2 considerably, through burning of forest and pastureland, for example. Ever-increasing transport needs were also generating more CO2. The ever-more-numerous cows were generating many millions more tons of methane, a greenhouse gas dozens of times more powerful […]

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UK Government IT spending

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for youLatest figures 2005 Ministry of Transport £244,500,000Defence £547,672,000 (operating costs) plus £134,466,000 (additions)Northern Ireland £10,724,000Dept Culture Media and Sport £64,600,000Welsh office £176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie £60 per person on IT alone!)International Development have no clue as to what […]

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IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Officer

Chris Huhne recently asked the government for details of IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Ministers office since 2002 and Department for Communities and Local Government since 2006.The answer is :- Financial year Expenditure (£) 2002-03 26,748,425 2003-04 20,913,037 2004-05 16,815,471 2005-06 18,108,962 and this lovely bit “There is no central record of project Executives, […]

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Wetpaint

Just invited today to try the latest in online web creation pages at Wetpaint. It transpires that it is just a hosted wiki site, cant see that it contains a blog as well, hard to see how this moves the game along at all. As for competing with MySpace well! The page I have started […]

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UK Government IT spending

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for youLatest figures 2005 Ministry of Transport £244,500,000Defence £547,672,000 (operating costs) plus £134,466,000 (additions)Northern Ireland £10,724,000Dept Culture Media and Sport £64,600,000Welsh office £176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie £60 per person on IT alone!)International Development have no clue as to what […]

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