Andrew Taylor

Quite an incredible view I thought!

Posted at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09   or thereabouts!

It’s just been announced that Alistair Darling, Trade and Industry Secretary, has rejected calls from a conglomerate of large retailers to deregulate the Sunday trading hours. Currently shops with a floor area more than 280 sq m can only open for a maximum of six hours between 10am and 6pm. There’s two campaigns – one to [...]

Found this today – quite hilarious! Warning though – it’s a non-IE site (they don’t even let you in with IE, quite bad IMHO). http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/07/04/lifes-too-short-for-the-wrong-job/

I was pointed to this earlier on today. I’m not the biggest football fan, but this mini scoreboard developed by Microsoft is pretty cool: http://tinyurl.com/o9h4w

Thanks to Tim for passing this my way earlier – a very interesting article about the physics of time travel – could it ever happen? http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/projects/the-physics-of-time-travel-real-or-fable.html

Have finally got round to using del.icio.us for my central bookmarks repository. http://del.icio.us/heypresto

Some interesting links on el reg I picked up earlier:

So not only do we have to put up with Shayne Ward as Christmas number 1 (what a load of crap these talent shows are now) but we now have another series of Big Brother that I will undoubtedly hear about constantly from the media. It’s the most boring thing I’ve ever encountered but completely [...]

Apparently yesterday (first day back at work after the Christmas/New Year break) is the most depressing of the year. Can’t say I thought that particularly – wasn’t the most exciting ever either though