A great and useful phrase.A modern form of the Arthur Conan Doyle phrase put into Sherlock Holmes‘ utterances „How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?“ However, it is often over used. Here is the antidote:
Monat: Dezember 2011
D’ye think it’s too late to call Paris and ask if they still want it? :: Anorak News
Soemtimes statistics are used, actually, to hide facts, here’s a case of putting two kinds of facts together, for comparison, what do you think about it? Olympics now worse than war in Afghanistan: official :: Anorak News. I am left wondering how many troops per person that is.
Gran Torino
Great Film, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about 🙂 That’s just explaining whay I’m in Grumpy Old Man mode. Anybody else *hate* the Google Mail „New Look“ and want to ram it down the throats of the designer committee „responsible“ for it? Listen Mr. Google, I’m in a Mail program which implies… Gran Torino weiterlesen
BBC News – UN climate talks end with late deal
BBC News – UN climate talks end with late deal. The BBC report appears to me to be more neutral than the n-tv piece but, Fact remains, the politicians are just looking out for number one (themselves.) They are leaving the real problem for their Successors and in the meantime they can invest the money… BBC News – UN climate talks end with late deal weiterlesen
Erfolg oder „Greenwashing“? – n-tv.de
Erfolg oder „Greenwashing“?: Neuer Klimavertrag soll erst ab 2020 gelten – n-tv.de. Also, die Politikern haben es schon wieder bewiesen, die denken nur an sich. Neuer Klimavertrag soll erst ab 2020 gelten. Der Politiker denkt „Wenn ich die Volk Sparmaßnahmen verordnen, werde ich abgewählt aber wenn ich nix tun, verliere ich ebenfalls Wähler.… Erfolg oder „Greenwashing“? – n-tv.de weiterlesen
The Pope chooses Android to fire up the Christmas lights | DVICE
The Pope chooses Android to fire up the Christmas lights | DVICE. But, does this make you more or less likely to choose an Android Tablet?
Concrastinate
I always say that it’s better to procrastinate than to put something off till another day and, I shall continue to do so until somebody tells me what „concrastinate“ means.