When I was interviewing recently, I found that 'last 20' could be whittled down far more accurately by a quick phone call to the prospective candidate. You could be discarding a very good candidate if you judge them by whether they have an aol or hotmail address. I'd still harbour suspicions of people using those addresses, but wouldn't discard their applications on those grounds.

The food has improved a lot here in recent years. Unfortunately the weather hasn't followed its example.

I live in Britain, you insensitive clod. We're almost out of Sun here.

I picked up this tip on a motorcycle forum:

Kill the engine and then restart the bike. The starter will generate enough of an EM field to trigger the sensor for the traffic lights.

I don't think that the streetview camera car is actually a robot, so of course that wouldn't work.

HDTV isn't going to remain niche for very long. You can hardly buy a non-HD TV these days and the Sky HD receiver has dropped in price to only fifty quid, and currently offers over 30 HD channels. Sky is also planning to offer 3D HDTV - now that's going to be a niche market for a while.

Add in the forthcoming Freeview HD channels and HD will be very much mainstream in Britain by the end of this year.

Not at all. If Pystar win, then all it means is that Apple can't force them to stop selling machines with OS X. It doesn't mean that Apple has to provide any support for OS X on third party hardware. I don't know where you get this idea, "If OS X has to support every hardware imaginable" from. It doesn't.

Jobs was lying. There's actually two versions of Leopard. The Server edition costs between $499 and $999.

Read this article:

Let's recap why there's concern about his health: in October 2003, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer - which is usually a quick killer. But Jobs is extraordinarily lucky: he had neuroendocrine cancer, a rare and treatable form. He had the Whipple procedure (which removes the head of the pancreas, where the cancer was, and the duodenum, which connects the stomach to the jejunum) to treat it in July 2004 (having unsuccessfully tried to "treat" it through diet, a fact that was kept from
Apple shareholders beyond the board).

I reckon that they're trying for an Ig Nobel prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize