Peter Cox’s Blog

I actually don’t know what the BBC stands for any more. I happened to be at the Tory party conference a couple of years ago and listened to a very disturbing speech by the current DG. I don’t believe it was reported anywhere, but I left wondering how the organization could possibly survive [...]

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In Word, enter =rand() and press Enter.
Hey presto, you’ll find a screen full of whimsical text.  But the text varies according to the “locality” that Microsoft believes you to inhabit.
Wary of upsetting the natives, the Microsoft backroom boys simply  paste some inoffensive text from the help file for the American version.  The English (proper UK [...]

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You’re sitting in your air-conditioned bunker in Nevada, La-Z-Boy recliner just at the right angle, can of Coke Zero within reach and nicely chilled.  You’re feeling good and ready for action.
Years of video gaming have prepared you for this moment.  You push the stick back, unleash a ton and a half of guided bombs and [...]

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No need for comment – other than saying, maybe we should get our priorities in order?

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So you go into a café, minding your own business, order a coffee and sit down to read for 5 minutes. Your dad printed out a couple of pages he found on the Weekly Planet’s website, which is a free independent newspaper published in Tampa, Fla. The article obviously tickled the old guy’s [...]

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If you are having a hard time coming to terms with the last helping of HP sauce, may I caringly suggest the services of Ms. Terese Vorsheck, grief counsellor to those who ought to get out a bit more.

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As a broad-minded agent-of-the-world, I sometimes deceive myself into thinking that I’ve heard it all before.  Then something like this comes along to show me how very wrong I am…

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“The Times has learnt that the Ministry of Defence was unwilling to supply lorries and drivers without being guaranteed payment for their services.”
- From The Times, yesterday’s edition, on the MoD’s refusal to assist victims of the worst flooding to hit England in 60 years.
So they’ve got their priorities right, then.

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I’ve always suspected that my possessions were spying on me. Now, here’s the proof. And if you own a colour printer, it’s spying on you, too.

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“Asda prices Potter at £5” What other sane industry - and I use the word “sane” with a big fat dose of sarcasm - prices it’s most in-demand product at less than cost price?
“We would also be concerned for Asda’s owners Wal-Mart”, says Bloomsbury’s marketing director Minna Fry, “at the losses they will be [...]

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