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• McGST Podcast Episode 68 (a potentially unfathomable nightmare)

  By Shaun on July 17, 2021

  “Surely the infection rate + the pinging app + Monday’s potential free for all = a potentially unfathomable nightmare. Why does it feel like the government is in complete denial about this? It’s absolutely bonkers.” James O’Brien “Boris Johnson’s plan… Read More ›

• Pop music’s greatest year?

  By Shaun on July 17, 2021

  In the December of 1980 John Lennon had been murdered; his killer had created a list of targets and Bowie was next in line. Bowie was spooked; he cut short his stint in “The Elephant Man” on Broadway and jetted… Read More ›

• Some retailers never learn…

  By Shaun on July 16, 2021

  The above, from Curry’s in the UK, highlights a continuing problem with tech listing and the seeming inability of the people publishing the items to understand what the products actually. This is such a simple part of the process, when… Read More ›

• He hated this park

  By Shaun on July 16, 2021

  I saw this somewhere online and am not sure if it is real or not, but I think that I would like Roger if I knew him.

• Your contact list is spilling over to the Internet

  By Shaun on July 16, 2021

  

  When apps ask for access to your address book and you consent, the data-sharing doesn’t always stop there. The names and contact information that used to stay safe in analog address books now float around the data economy, bouncing from… Read More ›

• The Cosmo Communicator

  By Shaun on July 15, 2021

  Cosmo Communicator is the ultimate mobile device that fits in your pocket. It’s a great little computer with an excellent keyboard, a world-wide dual-SIM mobile phone and a fantastic camera – all in one! Great for emails, messaging, editing documents,… Read More ›

• Fall Asleep In Minutes

  By Shaun on July 15, 2021

  Relax your entire face, including all the muscles and your tongue, from your jaw to inside your mouth. It can be easier to tense them all up first and then let go.Drop your shoulders to release any tension and allow… Read More ›

• Queen’s Greatest Hits (40 years later)

  By Shaun on July 14, 2021 • ( 1 )

  On 26th October 1981 Queen’s Greatest Hits was released. To many it was just another greatest hits compilation, a thing that usually exists to keep the money coming in when the popularity is waning, but this one was different. Nearly… Read More ›

• How I escaped Japan in a box

  By Shaun on July 14, 2021

  In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Mr Ghosn tells how he disguised himself to slip unnoticed through the streets of Tokyo, why a large music equipment box was chosen to smuggle him out of Japan and the elation he… Read More ›

• Inside Big Tech’s war for your privacy

  By Shaun on July 14, 2021

  Under the banner of a group called Marketers for an Open Web, Rosewell filed a complaint with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority last year, charging Google with trying to shut out its smaller competitors, while Google itself continued to… Read More ›

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