2010/10/29 14:58
East Renfrewshire have now decided that we need to put food waste into a separate bin.This means that we need to fit six bins into our kitchen:Compostable waste (fruit, veg and egg shells)Other food wasteMetal and glassPaper and cardboardHard plasticEverything else(I'm excluding from this list batteries, medicines, electrical equipment and other items that shouldn't be thrown into the normal bins...
2010/10/25 18:37
Amaia har udviklet sin helt egen måde at kravle på:Man kan vel sige, at hun har lært at sætte det lange ben foran! :-)
2010/10/31 21:32
I know I’ve been a bit negative about NemID in the past, but I’m starting to change my mind.
Because I’m a customer with Jyske Bank, I received a letter with a NemID code card last week, and when I then logged on to Jyske Bank, it transferred me to NemID. The only hassle was that I needed to install an extra Java package to make it work with Ubuntu.
The brilliant thing is that I can now access almost anything in Denmark using my NemID code card – I can access my tax information, change my name, move house, etc. (Of course most of it is completely irrelevant these days, but it would have been useful eight years ago.)
The UK could really learn from this – there are so many things that you still cannot do yourself over the Internet, and having one single access key really makes a difference.
2010/10/29 13:19
There's a new revelation about the war between Blair and Brown in the Jonathan Powell's new Book, "The New Machiavelli", as mentioned in the Guardian's Wintour and Watt blog (hat-tip: Liberal Democrat Voice):Given the Treasury's refusal to share information with us, we had real trouble working out what the financial implications for Britain of the Luxembourg proposal would be. In desperation, we kidnapped the Treasury's expert at the UK mission in Brussels and took him with us to Luxembourg so...
2010/10/28 10:54
What should one call a computer with the following specs?11-inch monitor64GB flash storage2GB memoryweight: 1.06 kgI'm pretty sure that most people would call this a netbook, but Apple don't like netbooks, so they call it the MacBook Air.I can only conclude that Air is Apple-speak for 'netbook'.Of course, by not calling it a netbook, they think they can defend the...
2010/10/25 11:52
Jeg er for tiden ved at lære Léon at læse dansk, og selvom han kæmper lidt med forskellen mellem dansk og engelsk, er han da ved at komme efter det. Det sværeste er næsten de forskellige bogstavnavne – på engelsk...
2010/10/19 23:33
While sampling some nice beer in Århus earlier this year with my good old friend Thomas Mailund, we had an interesting discussion about how long our genes live on for.I was reminded of this discussion when I managed to find...
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