Nickster’s View

I’m hardly one to bang the MS drum, but I have to say that recently I’ve noticed that it’s the smaller tools, provided with the OS, that really make a noticeable difference to the quality of my interaction. I’m not really talking about traditional usability and interface/interaction issues, as these are more workflow tools […]

The days tick by, and the questionnable mutated H5N1 threat hangs ominously latent. Tamiflu, humanities last great hope against global plague now has questionnable parallels with Larium, the anti-malarial with psychotic potential. The BBC reports that two japanese Tamiflu takers killed themselves in a delusional state likely caused by the Tamiflu.
This has horrible […]

I had no idea, but Rebekah Wade is the editor of The Sun. Apparently she assaulted her husband, Ross Kemp (on-screen hardman) and it has hit the headlines, unsurprisingly.
Had this been any other tabloid editor, no doubt The Sun would have worked their bullshit and magic to dig up every skeleton, dream some lies […]

Just read a story at USA Today about a giraffe that was “euthanized” because it had cancer (which is the sort of human kindness that I’m all in favour of, so why ok on a Giraffe, but not okay on a human?).
Naturally this puzzled me. Why is it that a Giraffe that is indigenous […]