Wayne Horkan's weblog: eclectic

Date:Saturday Feb 28, 2009

links for 2009-02-28 • Global downturn: In graphics | Business | BBC NEWS | Some of the key facts and figures behind the turmoil in the global financial markets; in easy to consume graphical formats. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:07 GMT

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Date:Friday Feb 27, 2009

links for 2009-02-27 • Home repossessions rise to 40,000 | Business | BBC NEWS | Harrowing news that number of home repossessed in the UK by lenders rose by 54% to 40,000, thankfully this is less than predicted by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), however they still expect that repossessions this. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:16 GMT

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Date:Thursday Feb 26, 2009

links for 2009-02-26 • New edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | UNESCO.ORG | Another collaboration with Google Maps, showing updated data about approximately 2,500 endangered languages around the world. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:44 GMT

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Date:Wednesday Feb 25, 2009

links for 2009-02-25 • Shark attacks predict economic bubbles, says boffin • The Register • A top Florida fish boffin says that the global recession is causing a massive decrease in the number of shark attacks; "I've yet to find a surfer who says he or she won't go back into the water. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:42 GMT

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Date:Tuesday Feb 24, 2009

links for 2009-02-24 • BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Netanyahu to form Israel cabinet Great, just what the world needs right now, another right-wing Israeli Government; Not. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:46 GMT

Category: Link

Date:Monday Feb 23, 2009

links for 2009-02-23 • Steam cashes in on better gaming experience - The Inquirer - The future of distribution is in giving people what they want; immediate access to high quality content. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:41 GMT

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Thoughts on hearing that Northern Rock are to lend £14 Billion in mortgages • Just wanted to jot down a few thoughts on hearing that Northern Rock are to release £14 Billion into the UK economy via lending for mortgages . • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 02:47 GMT

Category: Life

Date:Sunday Feb 22, 2009

links for 2009-02-22 • USA CO2 emissions from fossil fuel (2002 data only) : Project Vulcan : US Scientists from Purdue University have created an interactive Google Earth map showing carbon dioxide emissions across the United States, the high-resolution map shows carbon dioxide emissions in metric. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:35 GMT

Category: Link

Date:Saturday Feb 21, 2009

links for 2009-02-21 • "Whose data is it anyway?" Facebook in row over who owns *your* data | Technology | BBC NEWS | With Facebook still yet to find a genuine revenue generating business model, there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable not knowing what Facebook might do to achieve profitability. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:52 GMT

Category: Link

Date:Friday Feb 20, 2009

Measure Start-up "Buzz" with YouNoodle • Checkout YouNoodle , a new service which measures the "buzz" surrounding a company via blogs and media reports along with a variety of factors including website traffic. • ..... View Comments

Posted by: Wayne Horkan
Date / Time: / 22:22 GMT

Category: Tech

links for 2009-02-20 • U2's new album leaked online - The Inquirer - Popular beat combo, U2's new album, No Line On The Horizon, has been leaked on the web after someone stuck it on their online music store two weeks early, so I'm sure you'll be able to get a link to it at the. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 22:12 GMT

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A view from the Monument • Glad to see the Monument to the Great Fire of London has been re-opened after spending the last eighteen months being refurbished. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 15:50 GMT

Category: Home

Date:Thursday Feb 19, 2009

links for 2009-02-19 • Press reviews: Henry's Othello | Entertainment | BBC NEWS | One of the UK's favourite comedians and Black Countrymen, Lenny Henry, dazzles critics and audiences with his portrayal of Othello in Shakespeare's play of the same name. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:48 GMT

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Date:Wednesday Feb 18, 2009

links for 2009-02-18 • Race for 'God particle' heats up | Science & Environment | BBC NEWS | Competition is healthy for both Europe and the US, says Professor Lyn Evans, project leader of the European Large Hadron Collider (LHC), though missing out on the Higgs would be "sour. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:49 GMT

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Date:Tuesday Feb 17, 2009

links for 2009-02-17 • Community Equity Widgets explained : Reiser 2.0 : Weblog : Peter Reiser, web2.0 guru @ Sun, explains about a variety of functionality enabled as part of the SunSpace project, Sun's internal knowledge sharing and collaboration platform, answers "How do we visualize. • ..... View Comments

Posted by: Wayne Horkan
Date / Time: / 21:01 GMT

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Cloud Computing panel interview with Sun Microsystems at 'Entrepreneur Country' • During the recent 'Entrepreneur Country' event hosted by Ariadne Capital I took part in a Cloud Computing panel interview session on behalf of Sun Microsystems, I was able to capture some notes after the session and have replicated them here. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 12:29 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Monday Feb 16, 2009

links for 2009-02-16 • Alien life 'may exist among us' | Science & Environment | BBC NEWS | They walk among us, or at least they might, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 21:47 GMT

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Date:Sunday Feb 15, 2009

Sun Microsystems, Cloud Computing and the premier European VC event 'Entrepreneur Country' • At Sun UK we recently supported and attended " Entrepreneur Country " a major European Start Up and VC event. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 09:47 GMT

Category: Tech

Date:Saturday Feb 14, 2009

links for 2009-02-14 • TPB Tracker Geo Statistics - as in 'The Pirate Bay' - A helpful, handy, real-time, mash-up of Google maps and 'The Pirate Bay' (TPB) web logs, showing number of users on the site by country. • ..... View Comments

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Date / Time: / 20:56 GMT

Category: Link

Date:Friday Feb 13, 2009

links for 2009-02-13 • CBI calls for urgent Government intervention - CBI Press Release - If credit isn't available soon the recession is going to get a whole lot worse; CBI Director-General, Richard Lambert, has this week urged the Government to implement its various support packages to tackle. • ..... View Comments