According to The Observer today, the Civil Partnerships bill will be published on Wednesday
According to The Observer today, the Civil Partnerships bill will be published on Wednesday. Certainly I am in favour of the bill as I think my relationship with PY deserves some recognition of the 12 years we have spent together. But it’s not marriage and, therefore, there’s no equality. Still, as they say, one small step at a time.
The same paper is also reporting that the Irish parliament is about to be facing the same debates. Shame Mr Bush doesn’t look too Europe for more than just hired guns.
I acquired a new mobile ‘phone earlier in the week and it has a tiny camera in it which I used to take a picture of Piccadilly Circus at night
Piccadilly Circus
I acquired a new mobile phone earlier in the week. I didn’t actually choose the model. I acquired a new mobile phone earlier in the week. I didn’t actually choose the model because I was sent it. It’s bigger and heavier than my previous mobile, and it doesn’t have a radio, which I really liked when I was walking to work. It does, however, have a calendar function, which I find quite useful, and it has one of those built-in cameras that people rave about.
It’s not the greatest camera in the world, but it is quite cool to have a camera that you carry with you all the time. For no real reason, on Tuesday night, I decided that I wanted to take a shot of Piccadilly Circus (I work just around the corner). I have just pulled the image off the phone. It’s not a great photo (in fact, it’s a pretty poor one), but I am really quite happy with it. There is something about the colour and the light that suggests the real buzz you get from walking across Piccadilly Circus at night. Now, let’s see how many more photos I post.
Obviously, I am not the only person in the world to have a camera in a phone, I am not the only person to get excited about it, and I am not the only one to blog it. Guess there’s very little unique about me!
I don’t think we’re about to see the death of free. Once you don’t charge it’s going to be hard to charge because there’ll be somebody else with a free carrot.
Has the tide turned for free online content? AOL Time Warner has announced that a number of its properties will move away from offering free web content. Much of that content is to move onto AOL:
We are making the move from the content being available for free, and (instead are) making it so you have to have a relationship with us, said Peter Costiglio, a Time Inc. spokesman
http://www.msnbc.com/news/891631.asp
I’d love to see all web content free, but it’s not practical, and I take it as a sign that the industry is growing up and getting real. It will be interesting to see what happens in a year from now when, hopefully, advertising revenues are up a little. Will it swing back in favour of ad revenues?
