Tim Worstall

I be travelling. And brought my little notebook computer with me. Which has developed the most amazing fault. Half the keyboard works: the other half doesn’t. It runs in a line, about 45 degree angle, across the board. 3 doesn’t work, four does, n doesn’t work, m does. Anyone any clue as to what this [...]

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This isn’t right is it? Some US airlines allow passengers to use the internet on board, but most UK airlines ban it for insurance reasons, despite research suggesting that it is safe to use the web in transit. It’s a technical issue surely? The plane has to have the right equipment on board to actually [...]

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Who she? Not the route to a fortune anyway: “The intention of those involved in this joint venture, which led to the online publication of the footage on 17 March this year, was to earn a very substantial sum of money by charging $5.99 to individuals wishing to download the footage. “They anticipated over a [...]

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So young Ms. Martha Payne had a blog about school lunches. Took the piss a bit about what she was getting. Story gets picked up a bit, filtering through the blogs and forums and generally this internet lark. A national paper or two pick it up as a human interest story (she’s raising money for [...]

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The internet is a bigger part of the British economy than education, healthcare or construction. Britons generate more money online than any other G20 nation. But when it comes to high-speed broadband, the country is falling behind. The UK’s average download speed is ranked 16th in Europe, according to IT company Akamai, and experts warn [...]

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as near as I can figure our iPad does everything my laptop could do about 3 years ago. Tchah! Do you not understand? It does it more expensively which is just wonderful, isn’t it?

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Haniyeh said during the graduation ceremony of the first class of police academy in Gaza article: ‘The institutions set up security on a national basis should remain a working incubator for any security in the future.’ Haniyeh said: ‘What we have built will not destroy, because the Palestinian people felt fruit construction, particularly by ending [...]

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1) Write about Google at a well known media outlet. 2) Write something about Google at a well known media site that Google would like to finesse. 3) Profit!

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The American Airlines plane was forced to turn back to the departure gate so the 53-year-old actor could be removed from the aircraft, delaying the early morning flight from LAX airport to New York. The 30 Rock star, who could be fined over the incident, had been playing a computer game on his iPad, Words [...]

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I have to admit that this isn’t quite how I see it: @hal_berstram Hal Berstram @Van_Patten the problem for tim w is that richard m has an extremely deep grasp of economics whereas tim is a hack. it’s as simple as that.

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Lots of LOLcats stuff plays off the joke of washing a cat. OK, alright, some of it does. But, umm, who ever washes their cat? Dogs, yes, sure, but cats? They do that themselves just fine. Is this some Americanism or something, the washing of cats?

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Just had that interesting little message from it: Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to Swansea, Wales and had my bag stolen from me with my passport and credit cards in it. The embassy is willing to help by letting me fly without my passport, I just have to pay for [...]

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Britain has yet to produce the equivalent of a Microsoft, Apple or Google, but if we are embarking on a second industrial revolution at least one Briton would qualify as the man who launched it – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the internet. He launched the web, not the internet.

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What is Search Engine Optimisation? It’s the writing of a headline so that Google will pick it up. SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is a marketing technique for making a web page appear more frequently above others in a list of results from a search engine. Usually followed by a sub-head which repeats the terms [...]

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OK, so it’s the IMF this time. But a report on a cyber attack follows a standard a set patterm Organisation X has been hit by a cyber attack/phishing attempt/hacked. Organisation X has information that could be used to do Y. Then the fun bit: Mohan Koo, a cyber security specialist who is managing director [...]

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So, after my last post, about 5 minutes ago, talking about the minimum carbon price, I thought I’d go to Google and see if I could try and work out more about how it would work. Looking through the results I found that my post of 5 minutes ago was the number two entry for [...]

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But as DR says, under the new corporate dispensation, all bets are off — who’s going to work for AOL for no pay out of pure sentiment? Yup. Now it’s corporate, the business model is slightly broken, isn’t it?

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Umm: The WikiLeaks Task Force will “examine whether the latest release of WikiLeaks documents might affect the agency’s foreign relationships or operations,” CIA spokesman George Little said. I have a feeling that a rather large number of the CIA’s more junior peeps, the ones who actually do things and know what’s going on, are having [...]

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The only revelation here seems to be that someone in the US embassy reads the Daily Mail. Which is rather worrying, I suppose.

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