Alas, Business 2.0 realised what it had done and made amends.

Update, November 18: Business2.0 has graciously asked for permission to include the original linked image on their weblog, attributed – which permission, of course, I gladly granted. Sadly, they erased the numerous amusing comments ab...

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I had no real desire to add to the noise about Google’s new Google Base service, being as how I had nothing to add. But I’m delighted to point to Paul Ford’s latest over on ftrain, wherein he sticks it to Business 2.0, a publication of suspect ethics. In a nutshell: they stole his work, so he play...

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Cheap flights make playboys of us all. To Geneva (for less than 100 euros return, for two) to meet up with an old friend who foolishly suggested a few weeks ago that we go see Bob Dylan play Zurich. Of course I soon discovered that Bob would be playing Bologna on Thursday and Milan on Saturday. But I know nobody in either place, and the point was not merely to see Bob but to do so with friends and generally Have A Good Time.

Which we duly did.

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To the Auditorium a couple of nights ago, to hear Bill Frisell, and a wonderful evening it was. Completely different from the previous time I saw him in Rome; winter not summer, indoors not outdoors, small band not big band, different company. Still and all, entirely satisfying.

Almost every song...

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I’m pretty much at a loss for words about Kansas deciding, not for the first time, to implement education standards that “cast doubt on evolution”. It follows hard on the news that Dover, Pennsylvania kicked out all eight IDiot members of its school board who forced science teachers to read a stat...

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