Bored? Check Some Of These Then…
I found these whilst taking a break from doing work tonight… In no particular order… This made me think of my student digs when I was at Bournemouth. Penultimately, we have a site to let you know just...
View ArticleGood Summary of the Conspiracy Theories
I got a bit bored doing my work tonight, so I ended up randomly following links until I came upon… http://icssa.org/9-11%20Questions.htm Whilst most of the questions have been asked before, it was...
View ArticleFirst Blue Peter
Now another bastion of Britishness has been discovered to have dodginess occurring with phone in competitions. Check here for Blue Peter’s eventual admission of guilt. This time, GMTV, a morning TV...
View ArticleEye’ve Got Eyes On Your Eyes
Following on from the earlier ultrasonic sound waves, here we have technology that is designed to count just how many people are looking at a certain object. Useful for gauging an advertisement’s...
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Scary Times For Kazakhstan
I thought I’d already linked to KZBlog’s article on the case of a business man who was abducted and beaten, allegedly by a well known figure in Kazakh politics, but I couldn’t find it a moment ago....
View ArticleScally Choppers
It looks like someone went ahead and ran with an idea without actually figuring out just some of the consequences… The idea is that Police can use the RC helicopter to scope out scenes without it being...
View ArticleWho Are You And What Are You Doing?
The BBC has reported that the UK government is looking at introducing new stop and quiz powers for the police. Although not as controversial as the stop and search issue, the idea that a innocent...
View ArticleBBC Reports On Kazakhstan
A couple of friends in Britain sent me links to some interesting articles on the recent events in Kazakhstan, from the BBC. They are quite similar, and the articles are listed in date order, the...
View ArticleUrban Myth Or Scary Warning?
OK, I have to admit, I have read about this nightmare scenario before, but I had not realised that some Koreans take it very seriously… What am I talking about? The silent killer – Death By Fan! Yes,...
View ArticleWiFi Killed My Hamster…
The Guardian blog has an entry regarding the ongoing saga of the BBC Panorama’s report on the dangers of WiFi radio signals, especially in children, whose brains are still developing. They centred...
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Pussy Proprietor Protects Privacy
Following on from my earlier posting regarding people finding images that interested them via Google Maps, somebody is not happy with level of detail possible in Google’s eye level view of certain...
View ArticleGoogle Bad For You
or more specifically the privacy and security of your data. Privacy International have rated Google as ‘hostile’ in their survey of web-based companies deal with data from their users. PI stated that...
View Articlenews.google.com blocked?
If anyone else in Kazakhstan reads this, could you do me a favour? Try and visit news.google.com and let me know if it works for you. I can’t currently access Google’s main news server. I first noticed...
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Google Responds To Criticism
Following on from the damning report that Privacy International released, and similar concerns from Article 29 (an EU based advisory body), Google has now cut the length of time that they will save...
View ArticleCornwall Nationalists
Militants in Cornwall (where my brother attends university) have issued a statement warning two celebrity chefs that their businesses are at risk. There is history of rebellion in Cornwall, reaching...
View ArticleNew Blog And A PS Video
Whilst browsing through the PayPerPost forums, someone linked to their blog (Call Me When You Get There), which caught my attention, as this is the sort of thing Ira often says to anyway leaving our...
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Robocop v0.02a
I read about this over at a FoxNews page (I tried to find a less objectionable site to link to, but, right now at least, this article was the best quality!) In an effort to cut down on some of the...
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Signs That Your Business Plan Is Not Working
My last job in Britain, before leaving for Kazakhstan would have ended 4 days after I emigrated anyway, but it appears that some of the staff whose roles took over some of our responsibilities are not...
View ArticleKazakh Company Wants To Invest
Just caught this report over on the BBC World news channel. Apparently the American government and GreenPeace (for differring reasons) is not very happy at the prospect of KazAtomProm (the Kazakh...
View ArticleMalaysian Bloggers Beware
I have linked to quite a few Malaysian bloggers in the past, and some have linked back, so when I discovered how the government over there is once more cracking down on them, using anti-terrorism...
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How Not To Handle Customers
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 out to Amsterdam, then Britain, then a little...
View ArticleCSI Plotline Prediction
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, and the 3rd program...
View ArticleCIA And The Vatican Exposed!
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, anyone can edit them. This of course leads...
View Article(Free) WordPress Blogs Are Offline In Turkey
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 people are unable...
View ArticleBeijing Promises To Crack Down On Hackers
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 a...
View ArticleTrust Us – This IS Best For You…
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 complete faith that there were...
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No Sleep – Average Faces And Gigantic Firewalls
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 post). If it does not appear soon, I...
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Spring Clean Of Bookmarks…
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 I have been meaning to post about in the last few weeks....
View ArticlePssst, looking for some cholesterol?
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 aims are...
View ArticleFrance Gets Innovative
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 stay legal when it comes to...
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Facebook Capitulates To Public Pressure
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 – members’ browsing & purchasing...
View ArticleWeird
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,...
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Saving People From RSI?
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 a...
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That Really Happened?
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 just bought up...
View ArticleGrote Broer Is Watching You!
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 even further into our...
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And Why Not?
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 powers...
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Obama AND McCain Not Eligible?
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 this site,...
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Caught Out, Closed Down?
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 card scheme were in fact...
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House of Lords Do Something Well!
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, I just wish they had no...
View Articletv news re.protests.glad live …
tv news re.protests.glad live pics r now normal,less(?) chance of repeat of traf. square(?)coverage,with reversed timeline on police charges
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I Couldn’t Spell Kalmykia Either
Just caught an interesting BBC article regarding claims from Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (the president of Kalmykia (or Kalymkia as the BBC have it currently spelt in the article?!)) that he was abducted by...
View ArticleRecorded Strokes And Missing Blocks
Sounding more like a plot device in Mission Impossible XIV than a well researched BBC article, spying on people’s keyboard strokes via the mains cable that powers the computer is more fuel for the tin...
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That Hub Looks A Bit Cleaner Than Yesterday?
Whether it is a TV, desk fan or wall clock, the gadgets you could buy from catalogues in the previous decades to spy on people were all pretty big. New Scientist has an article informing us that not...
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