BMdotcom financial quote of the day
In this: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook have a combined market capitalization of $3.7 trillion, equal to Germany’s gross domestic product last year. Quoted at Instpundit by Stephen...
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Neo Bankside residents lose battle to stop Tate Modern visitors looking into...
Here. The verdict is: They knew what they were moving into. They should install blinds or net curtains. Or, turn the viewable-from-the-Tate-Extension living rooms into art installations. The judge...
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More healthcare technology in action
Yesterday, as already noted, I was out and about in London. And another interesting thing I photoed was this, also healthcare-related: I photoed this photo with his permission, by the way. I guess that...
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More art beside the river
After I photoed those metal men beside the river; outside the old Woolwich Arsenal, I then walked up river towards the Dome, photoing photos like this: However, just before photoing that photo; I...
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GD2 does a selfie session with a fan
Yesterday a big gang of friends and family, me among them, heard G(od)D(aughter)2 do her end-of-year recital, way up at the top of the Royal College of Music just near the Albert Hall. It was terrific....
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Strange Things on a tree
I recently attended a picnic in a London square, the sort with a small park in the middle, and photoed this strange tree with its extra bits. Left to right: lots of context, some context, and just the...
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Photo-uploading problems
For some mysterious reason, I am having problems uploading photos. Have I reached some sort of limit? One of the photos I tried to upload was a photo of a famous painting. Did WordPress recognise the...
View Article“Every educated person in the land knew of the Eder and the Möhne dams …”
I have been reading James Holland’s book about the Dam Busters, which contains some illuminating pages concerning the history of the dams that got busted. These pages (pp. 242-247 of my paperback...
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Bloomingdales of Putney
More archival grubbing got me to this, which was photoed with my old Canon A70 in the summer of 2004, in Lower Richmond Road, Putney: Here’s what Google was able to tell me a few moments ago about how...
View ArticleTelephone pollsters can take a hike!
Bloomberg: A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference...
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