Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Dec 10, 2009, 10:34 am
A chap called Roy Prol has done an animation that shows what the Earth would be like if it had a ring system similar to Saturn's.  Very interesting little imagined scenario, and set to supernally...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Dec 8, 2009, 9:14 am
Didn't know whether to file this one under Environment, Tin Foil Hat, or World Economy, as it has elements of all three.   The Guardian, a very pro-green paper on the whole, has the story of a d...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Dec 4, 2009, 10:22 am
Lovely interview in the Guardian, or at least extract of the autobiography of Oliver Postgate, the man behind Smallfilms, creator of such greats as Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, and my all time favourite ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 27, 2009, 8:00 am
After my last rather serious post, here is a funny Xmas toy moment from FailBlog.  As it says in the video, "Tarzan doesn't seem to need Jane Anymore..."
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 27, 2009, 5:36 am
I have not been posting much this week, as I have been busy, and also I had another attack of Doomer's block.  Doomers block is what happens when you think, "I should write something in my blog" ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 22, 2009, 10:10 am
The servers at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit have been hacked, and e-mails and other documents have been taken and spread liberally around the Internet.  Why is this interesting, well, because th...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 22, 2009, 10:03 am
I have a lot that I want to blog about, but when I try to compose in the main typepad editor, it collapses the browser. I have tried Firefox, and IE, as well as a clean reboot, and a logout and login....
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 17, 2009, 8:44 am
A while back I read a great Ward Nerd piece at the Exile, which is a hotbed of rather full on opinion and comment, but one that hits the mark more often than you might suspect.  The original articl...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 17, 2009, 8:33 am
This assessment comes from George Monbiot writing in the Guardian.  He is talking about the onset of Peak Oil which they aslo wrote about a week ago, as the IEA seemed to be forced to overstate the r...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 10, 2009, 6:35 am
For those of you who are concerned about the state of the world, one of the main issues is the potential or otherwise that the world will run out of Oil, a phenomenon called Peak Oil.  Only, guess ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 10, 2009, 4:30 am
I always joke that if I ever write a sitcom, it will be called "Geneva, an everyday tale of expatriate folk."  Only problem is, even if I just wrote the simple unalloyed truth of our daily lives no-o...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 9, 2009, 3:08 pm
Dunno. Here at Newlands mansions its been... real.  Bit too fucking real. One of our neighbours has terminal cancer. One of our good friends is looking, possibly, at a divorce. Another good frien...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 9, 2009, 10:20 am
Reading my old buddy Hugh's blog.  (It's him who got me started, the bastard.  Can I have my life back now please...) He was talking about the passing of the good blue collar jobs in the US...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 9, 2009, 8:16 am
Reading this article in Newsweek about the potential for Sovereign debt defaults, this seems to be the most clearly predictable move since the apple fell out of the tree and hit Newton on the bonce. ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Nov 3, 2009, 6:47 am
Sprott, a Canadian wealth manager and hedge fund has given a rather gloomy assessment of the state of the American government's financial health.  "In case you failed to catch it in our previou...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 30, 2009, 6:46 am
I occasionally wonder where an apparently odd phrase or saying came from, and in this spirit of enquiry, I looked up the word "Tickety boo" meaning, "everything is great" in English English.  (As opp...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 30, 2009, 3:03 am
Enquiring minds will enjoy the fact that the derivatives exposure in total may be as much as 1.4 Quadrillion dollars.  I had to Google to even find out what a quadrillon dollars is.  Turns out it is...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 22, 2009, 11:18 am
Rolling Stone has one of the best populist descriptions of what the hell happened on Wall Street and why.  Read it, and weep. 
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 21, 2009, 7:13 am
I read a very good column by Martin Wolf in today's Financial Times.  He talks about the state of the world economy, and Britain in particular.  His main point is that the banks are giving real ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 15, 2009, 7:34 am
This report on Bloomberg has the chief currency strategist at Sumitomo Bank being rather gloomy about the dollar.  "The dollar may drop to 50 yen next year and eventually lose its role as the glob...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 14, 2009, 4:14 am
I once read a really elegant reason why there will never be a working time machine.  If you believe that the universe can be changed - which is not a given - then you could imagine a machine that wou...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 13, 2009, 3:46 am
Someone bought a chalk and wash drawing for 19,000 dollars, but it is now believed to be an original Leonardo da Vinci, and so worth 100 million dollars.  Get on ebay now folks, it could be you. 
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 13, 2009, 2:38 am
Here's a deal that I think that everyone can grok:  Karl Lagerfeld thinks that fat women should not be on the catwalk.  Maybe it's too obvious to say that real women, i.e. with a healthy bod...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 9, 2009, 8:33 am
In one of the oddest decisions I can remember, the Nobel Prize for peace has gone to a man who is commander in chief of country that is currently running two simultaneous wars. Now Obama does deserve...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 9, 2009, 7:49 am
I wrote about what would you pay for free the other day, about Rupert Murdoch wanting to ring fence the News International titles and charge for access.  Clay Shirky is interviewed in the Telegraph...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 8, 2009, 8:12 am
A report in the Daily Telegraph, and elsewhere, writes of the latest study released about Peak Oil. "The most recent estimation from the International Energy Agency, that advises Governments aro...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 6, 2009, 8:35 am
The eternally gloomy, but unfortunately rather prescient, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes about the imminent collapse of Latvia in the Telegraph.   Local chap writes in more detail here. "Collapse o...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 6, 2009, 8:08 am
Next time you feel unattractive or find yourself staring at someone cute, remember that we're all basically a huge bag of gross bugs. "All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Oct 2, 2009, 7:55 am
This website all to do with the EU's use of energy was linked in a comment on the Guardian.  I had never seen it before, and it's a cracker for all sorts of statistical energy information tha...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 30, 2009, 4:31 am
The Germans are the world's worst lovers, beating the English in second place, as it were.   Working, as I do, in a German company full of computer programmers, I find this hard to believe.  ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 28, 2009, 9:26 am
Sunday I had the same dreaded bug that that had kept the SSCOTA from school for the last two days of the week.  Nothing terrible, just a heavy cold, so I decided to stay in bed.  The SSCOTA went t...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 28, 2009, 9:14 am
Weekend before last, Mrs Spaceship and I went up to help celebrate the wedding of two of our local friends.  They had not been in too much of a rush getting married, what with having three kids toget...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 23, 2009, 5:46 am
Hooly-Dooly.  It appears that the inevitable lawyer based cluster fuck that was bound to happen as soon as someone lost money on Mortgage Backed Securities may be just about to take another turn.  ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 16, 2009, 8:09 am
I stopped following Formula One for precisely the reason that the Daily Mash gave in this story about the return of Michael Schumacher. "He insisted: "No more overtaking, no more surprises, no victor...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 16, 2009, 3:41 am
I have seen this one being linked to many times around the web, it is a story about the collapse of the international container shipping business to levels appropriate to a drecesspion.  (Is it a dep...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 16, 2009, 3:28 am
Had a conference call this morning, and so I rang the Geneva number for Ready Conference Plus, and got the following message: "This number is no longer in service.  Please call the Zürich Number." ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 15, 2009, 3:20 pm
This is a debate that will run and run... If you are Rupert Murdoch, you are used to the idea that your media is sufficiently credible, that people will pay to see what you have to say. Option One:Â...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 15, 2009, 10:56 am
Just when you thought we'd gone all happy clappy here in the Spaceship, back to the real world.  Ireland is about to set up its toxic bank.  Hundred million Euro question (or more) what do you...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 12, 2009, 8:13 am
Mr Gerald Miller writes from Germany, with a little housekeeping tip for the computer minded.  As he points out, many people take the precaution of cleaning the outside of the monitor screen, but how...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 12, 2009, 8:05 am
Wow.  Finally I have some breathing space.  I spent the last two weeks frantically building demos for a client as I mentioned in my last post, and now we have delivered,I have some time to breathe, ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Sep 11, 2009, 10:10 am
Blogging lite, because of Real Life (TM) heavy. Spent the last two weeks building a big demo for an Italian client, and then going down to Italy to deliver the demo and so on.  Boy, does that make ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Aug 28, 2009, 9:15 am
The Spaceship went on holiday to Italy this year, down near Lucca and Pisa.  Very nice time, went with good friends, and had a relaxing time for the most part hanging out in the swimming pool in the ...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Aug 28, 2009, 9:07 am
Well, been blogging light as I have been saying, because I went on holiday for three weeks, and then when I got back, it seems that the whole European banking industry wants to atone for previous sins...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Aug 27, 2009, 9:54 am
Just really really bleeding busy with getting back to work.  Could be much worse I suppose.
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Aug 6, 2009, 2:35 pm
Blogging has been very lite here in the Spaceship, as we are in hyper social and holiday mode. I am in Italy at the moment between Pisa and Lucca, having a well earned rest. Normal blogging res...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Jul 24, 2009, 3:21 am
Not a complaint about it being Xmas, but a reason that it has been blogging light the last week or so.  I am working full time with a Turkish customer to show them the delights of SAP, which is my da...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Jul 14, 2009, 4:32 am
People often comment on me living in Switzerland, and how it must be nice, but, well, rather dull.  Not one bit of it, we live in daily peril here in this country, I tell you. 
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Jul 12, 2009, 4:46 am
Another very interesting shot in the diplomatic joust between America and its creditors.  Dmitri Medvedev, President of Russia showed off a coin from the new world currency, which he had in his pocke...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Jul 12, 2009, 4:41 am
Interesting opinion piece here about the cap and trade.  If the case for climate change is not watertight, no pun intended, then this could be a very wrong move.  It would seem that there is signifi...
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Hamish N. posted an article on Cardboard Spaceship - Jul 12, 2009, 4:35 am
There goes the neighbourhood.  Ronald MacDonald and all his chums, or at least the ones not making minimum wage serving ground up cow's udders are moving to be in Spaceshipland.  I honestly ha...
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