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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Web 2.0 Conferences
Here are some Web 2.0 Conferences that haven’t received Cease and Desist notices from O’Reilly’s partner:
- From the UK, dconstruct’s Web 2.0 Conference in Brighton (which included Cory Doctorow, amusingly)
- WebDosBetter, billed as Spain’s Web 2.0 Conference
- In Canada, Mesh, Canada’s Web 2.0 Conference
- China has one
Army Desertions
More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered.
Mild-mannered philosopher blows his cool
AC Grayling, generally interesting writer, philosopher, commentator, has had it with Blair’s view of Britishness and especially with the proposed ID cards and database. He says,
Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
The Wagner CD from Amazon is delivered. Not whole operas because, frankly, I wouldn’t know what to look for and I don’t know yet if I could sit through an entire Wagner opera (although I was suprisingly glued to the tv last Christmas when Bryn Terfel was singing as Wotan).
First up, the Siegfried Funeral March from Götterdämmerung, which is what I’d been waiting to hear. Then hurriedly on to the long, impossibly romantic Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. Playing now, Helen’s favourite so far, the Overture from Tannhäuser.
Against intimidation, for medical research
You can sign the petition supporting medical research in the UK and make a (slight, probably ineffective) stand against the deluded inadequates who bomb, threaten and intimidate researchers - and anyone else who aknowledges that carefully controlled animal research is necessary.
Catholic pot and kettle
This from the Catholic Church:
Leading UK Catholics and members of Opus Dei have formed a group to respond to the negative impact the Da Vinci Code film is expected to bring.
The Da Vinci Code Response Group, which also includes a Benedictine abbot and two priests, has condemned Dan Brown’s book as “fiction trading as fact”.
Near-death collision results in small bruise
Helen crashed today. Driving at about 40mph along a duel carriageway another car pulled out from the left into her path. To avoid a collision she veered towards the central reservation and ploughed straight into a set of traffic lights. The car’s a write-off, she’s ok.
She could be dead tonight, or lying mangled in hospital, or have at least a broken limb or two but nothing except for one small bruise. I wonder if she’s lucky to be unharmed or unlucky to have been in such a nasty accident.