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Note to people about chain emails : please don't !

By John Garner on Saturday, April 8, 2006

Just a short note to say that I would really appreciate it if people sending me emails whether I know you or not, would please do not send me "chain emails". For those that are lucky and don't know what this is, it consists of picking up or creating an email that is supposed to […]

Remember when your kids came to you for the answers rather than the Internet ?

By John Garner on Friday, April 7, 2006

I came across a very funny article at MediaPost today called "Google Is Now Smarter Than Daddy" by Gord Hotchkiss and I recommend you read it. I suppose it was also funny to me because it reminded me of one or two recent events. My younger brother Adam, when I was at my dad's recently […]

US Telecom companies : poised to give the Internet the sting of death ?

By John Garner on Thursday, April 6, 2006

Lawmakers in the US Congress will be voting today on a law that will allow the big telecom companies in the US to give priority to certain content. They argue that certain companies are wanting to serve larger files like video and should thus pay more. However everybody knows that you can measure how much […]

A 'channel' pass for TV series via the Internet

By John Garner on Thursday, April 6, 2006

I recently wrote an article (in French) about wanting to take a look at a new Channel 4 series in the UK called the "IT crowd". I was thinking 'wow this is great', the TV channels have finally understood that they can make money from distributing content over the Internet with maybe having adverts in […]

Queen Margot tells the President he's off the point...

By John Garner on Tuesday, April 4, 2006

In an article in Liberation today, Margot a student in Toulouse says with humor "Chirac ... Il est hors sujet" (he's off the point). This is a term some teachers used with a sort of wicked delight when I was at High School here in France "Votre Dissertation est hors sujet" they'd say : "Your […]

Following the unrest in France

By John Garner on Monday, April 3, 2006

On the 28th March in the afternoon I was thinking, wow it's really quiet outside, that's weird I thought there was supposed to be a demonstration today. Normally I can hear the jostle of people and cars, buses etc. down in the street. I was looking out of the window and then about five minutes […]

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