» by ChrisM April 1st, 2009 at 1:12 pm » Comments (0)

tv news re.protests.glad live pics r now normal,less(?) chance of repeat of traf. square(?)coverage,with reversed timeline on police charges more »

» by ChrisM November 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm » Comments (0)

Long term readers will have realised that I am not exactly a staunch Monarchist (though not necessarily a Republican - I'm happy to have a Royal family for tourist purposes, ...more »

» by ChrisM October 24th, 2008 at 2:23 am » Comments (0)

I was following a story over at The Register, which involved the UK government's ID card forum. The original article contained allegations that some of the supporters of the ID ...more »

» by ChrisM October 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am » Comments (0)

I was speaking with a friend yesterday about the American presidential election, having just finished watching Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising. I tend not to dip into politics to often on ...more »

» by ChrisM May 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am » Comments (0)

The brilliant UK govt. has released information on plans to create a huge database of phone calls and e-mails based in Britain. Quite aside from the civil liberties/govt. intelligence agencies ...more »

» by ChrisM May 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm » Comments (0)

This is definitely one of those cases where it is difficult to tell whether unfolding events are heading towards a better crime-free world, or simply Big Brother worming its way ...more »

» by ChrisM April 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm » Comments (0)

This sort of post is perfect for the Aware or Conspiracy Nut category here at ChrisMerriman.com. Each of the following actually occurred, and are well documented. However, if your friend ...more »

» by ChrisM February 20th, 2008 at 7:23 pm » Comments (0)

I remember seeing a segment on a TV program back in the 90s that showed a Japanese research scientist playing space invaders without touching anything. He basically thought Left/Right/Fire, and ...more »

» by ChrisM December 5th, 2007 at 3:15 am » Comments (3)

Just noticed that since changing ISPs, FireFox's search bar now defaults to the Kazakh Google domain (google.kz) for searches. Any other Kazakh readers out there find this behaviour with FF? Hmmm, ...more »

» by ChrisM December 5th, 2007 at 2:10 am » Comments (0)

I have recently being using Facebook more than in the past, and noticed a few new groups that were formed to try and influence Facebook's policies on a few matters ...more »

» by ChrisM November 29th, 2007 at 2:26 am » Comments (0)

Whilst I am against the punishing of Peer To Peer users in general, it is interesting to see that France has tried a (slightly) different route in persuading people to ...more »

» by ChrisM November 19th, 2007 at 1:45 am » Comments (0)

Just finished reading an interesting article over at the BBC site. It reports that Glasgow council are considering various ways to improve the health of their school's pupils. Whilst their ...more »

» by ChrisM September 20th, 2007 at 4:44 am » Comments (0)

OK, this is one of the last posts I will make whilst in Kazakhstan, so I intend to use it to catch up with a few articles, videos and sites ...more »

» by ChrisM September 13th, 2007 at 7:13 am » Comments (0)

OK it is 6.55am over here, and I am still up, hoping to catch another WorldWide Wednesday opportunity over at PayPerPost, as I managed to last week (see the Argus ...more »

» by ChrisM September 7th, 2007 at 4:35 am » Comments (0)

The technology is amazing. The possibilities can be mind blowing. There is no need to worry. Only two of the above unfortunately apply in the real world. If we could have ...more »

» by ChrisM August 28th, 2007 at 1:14 am » Comments (0)

Reading between the lines of an article, it would appear that there have been rumours of government involvement in China, with hackers' attempts to infiltrate German Government computer networks, in ...more »

» by ChrisM August 27th, 2007 at 2:46 am » Comments (2)

WordPress.com has been officially blocked in Turkey! Although that does not effect this blog, anyone who uses the WordPress server to host their own free blog will find that Turkish ...more »

» by ChrisM August 17th, 2007 at 4:54 am » Comments (1)

Wikipedia Scanner - doing the leg work most of us can't be bothered to go through... As you will know if you are at all interested in Wikipedia, for most pages, ...more »

» by ChrisM August 15th, 2007 at 4:34 am » Comments (0)

I enjoy watching NCIS, CSI, and Waking The Dead (the first two via some Swiss satellite channels, with the 2nd audio channel selected to retain the original English sound track, ...more »

» by ChrisM August 10th, 2007 at 6:22 am » Comments (1)

Just prior to my hard drive crashing, I came across a post on an Irish blog, that really caught my attention. The main reason is that I will be flying ...more »