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Daily Archives: March 9, 2009

Chimpanzees are not monkeys. Take two.

March
2009

Think about this when you see chimpanzees drinking tea and playing pianos on TV. Chimps also have, like us, minds enough to lose and memories that can hasten the process. Wild chimps ‘recruited’ by poachers for entertainment watch as their … Continue reading

Former Terrorists

March
2009

  It was a reminder of how far the peace process in Northern Ireland has come when former leaders of the IRA and its political twin, Sinn Féin, condemned the murder of two British soldiers by the so-called Real IRA. Politicians … Continue reading

Quality’s still beating heart

March
2009

James Bach blogged last week about the Death of Quality Quality is dead in computing. Been dead a while, but like some tech’d up version of Weekend at Bernie’s, software purveyors are dressing up its corpse to make us believe computers can … Continue reading