Category Archives: Pointless Futurology

Europe in Flames?

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Carps

If, as seems likely, the French and Germans get their way, Papandreou will be history soon. Who will replace him? Someone who is prepared to kowtow to the EU line and sign Greece up to decades of penury. How will … Continue reading →

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Greek Debt Default: Here Comes the Tidal Wave….

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Carps

So Greece is, finally, hitting the buffers. Interest rates on money loaned to the Greeks is now 30%, which basically means no-one will lend to them. The proposed “bailout” (another trifling matter of some tens of billions of Euros) is … Continue reading →

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The endgame cometh: Portugal on the brink of a bailout

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Carps

Gosh. Portugal’s in trouble? Who knew? Well anyone with eyes and brain. Even me – and I’m shit thick – knew this was coming. The now-familiar death dance has begun: “no pressure… no-one’s talking about bailouts… 3 year recovery plan…” … Continue reading →

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The New Twitter vs. Google

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Carps

Google has, for most of us, been the only way to find information on the internet for the best part of a decade. Their model is simple, even if the technology isn’t: Index every page on the internet Determine what … Continue reading →

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Daily Telegraph Photoshop Fake. Again.

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Carps

Oh dear. Despite it being known last year that an iconic image of Iranian missiles rising from the desert had been Photoshopped to show more missiles than were actually there, they’ve repeated the photograph alongside a story today. The newspapers’ … Continue reading →

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Will iPhone Apps replace the desktop… and the web?

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Carps

I’m sure I’m late to this whole thing (I blog once a week – in my underpants – and I really don’t know shit about technology) but having just had Windows 7 installed, I’ve just noticed that the “desktop” metaphor suddenly feels incredibly dated and stale. Continue reading →

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