Peter Cox’s Blog

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Further confirmation that some of the biggest websites on the net are largely dominated by a bunch of mindless bullies for who “customer service” is an alien concept comes in the form of that megalith, E-Bay.
An author of mine recently experimented with writing and producing his own e-book, and popped it [...]

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A team from the Harvard School of Public Health recently asked a very simple question. Does the barrage of abusive “security” procedures long-suffering passengers are subjected to make flying any safer?
In view of the billions of public money spent on no-bid contracts (no danger of corruption there, then) it seems a reasonable [...]

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The brave sailors aboard the Yushin Maru, who risk their lives sailing the seven seas in search of cheap dogmeat for Japanese consumers, today accused the Australian government of “dangerous emotional propaganda” for releasing pictures of a mother Minke whale and her baby calf being hauled aboard a whaling ship. They couldn’t tell whether [...]

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You simply can’t make this kind up thing up. McDonalds, one of the world’s most despicable companies, are today officially approved in Britain to give out their own exam certificates up to degree level. Would that be an A-level in de-greasing, garbology or obesitology? And do you want fries with that?

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Over the past few years, I’ve been to the majority of gyms in central London - and, in one way or another, found most of them wanting in one way or another.
The best gyms of all are old-fashioned boxing gyms.  Should you happen to live near one (unlikely), go for it.  Sadly, they are a [...]

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“Within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”
- The New York Times, yesterday.
This is clearly nothing to do with the threat from terrorism, and everything to do with moving towards a surveillance state. No sensible person would object to [...]

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Weeks after making the transition, my productivity is still less than 40% that of Word 2003.  So many things to hate, so little time… I used to have all the functions I wanted on a single toolbar, and could access them all with a single click.  Now, most common functions are three clicks or more [...]

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In 1933, a group of American businessmen (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell House & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.  So they instigated a coup.  Their treasonous plottings were aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the [...]

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If you live anything other than a 100% self-sufficient lifestyle, this new study (apart from explaining the logic behind the Iraq war) is some of the most important news this year. I’m still digesting it – but mark my words – times are a changing.

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The No-Fly list is being expanded again –will soon top 1m.  Are there really that many terrorists in the world?  The comments on this piece are revealing:

“…this ruined my career. I used to be a consultant with Accenture and travelled constantly, including internationally. Having to spend 6 to 7 hours every single week at special [...]

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