March 18th, 2009
The Pope says Africans cannot rely on condoms to reduce the spread of H.I.V. and AIDS because condoms make the problem worse. AIDS workers there, uh, disagree:
Rebecca Hodes of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa said that if the pope was serious about preventing new H.I.V. infections, he would focus on promoting wide access to condoms and spreading information on how best to use them.”Instead, his opposition to condoms conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans,” said Ms. Hodes, director of policy, communication and research for the action campaign.
While she said the pope was correct that condoms were not the sole solution to Africa’s AIDS epidemic, she said they were one of the very few H.I.V. prevention mechanisms that work.
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March 3rd, 2009
Monitoring web traffic is a dicey thing and sometimes it’s hard to determine if traffic statistics are meaningful. Traffic monitor Net Applications has released their mobile web traffic numbers for February and they are surprising to say the least.
It’s pretty much a given that iPhone owners do a lot of web browsing on their phones, the iPhone is designed for that. Knowing that going in still doesn’t prepare me for the statistic showing that iPhone web browsing accounts for 66% of all mobile web browsing. That’s just a huge share and I’m not sure what to make of it. Equally surprising is that the G1 Android phone has already gained a 6% share, matching that of Symbian-based phones. While it’s no surprise that the BlackBerry browsing share is low, I expected it to be more than the 2.24% that is showing here.
*data taken from http://jkontherun.com/
Tags: iphone, mobile
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February 11th, 2009
He has his opponents in Congress, but President Barack Obama is stressing the need to settle the stimulus issue—and fast. On Monday, in his first major news conference since assuming office, Obama warned of economic troubles ahead and presented the stimulus package as a possible way out.
Boston.com:
“This is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill recession,” Obama said. “We are going through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
The president said he is “absolutely confident” the nation can overcome this crisis, but he warned that the government, business, and consumers must change their ways. He also declared Republicans who oppose his massive spending plan on ideological grounds should not engage in “revisionist history,” noting their party presided over a doubling of the US debt and helped create the ailing economy he inherited.
The first and most critical step, he said, was for Congress to approve his economic stimulus package, which he said would put more money into the hands of consumers, encouraging them to spend money, and which would create jobs in both the public and private sectors.
Tags: Obama, usa
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January 31st, 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said digital technology was as important today as
“roads, bridges and trains were in the 20th Century”.
Many MPs have been told it would help Britain secure a competitive low carbon economy in the next five to 10 years, adding the country “led the world in content creation”.
The report called for everyone in the UK to have access to a broadband speed of up to two megabites per second (Mbps).
This would make internet connections capable of handling much more video and sites that offer greater interactivity.
To do this tho the government will need to know whether internet service providers (ISPs) can build next generation networks themselves or if government help will be needed.
*Some information taken from bbc.co.uk
Tags: 2012, BBC, Broadband, Gordon Brown
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June 27th, 2008
What goes around comes around.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like youve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’’s Heaven on Earth.
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