Interesting Links for 12-2-2011

[andrewducker]

• Pro-AV Tory accuses party of stifling debate
  (tags: conservatives voting av)
• Is Hosni Mubarak Still President of Egypt?
  (tags: Funny egypt)
• The first photo of One Hobbit And Thirteen Dwarves.
  (tags: thehobbit movies)
• Mubarak has just resigned as president of Egypt.
  (tags: egypt politics EpicWin)
• I can visit 166 countries without a visa. How about you?
  (tags: travel visa immigration passport politics)
• Nokia granted exclusive rights to customize WP7. This is interesting. I wonder how HTC, LG, etc. will take this...
  (tags: nokia microsoft mobile_phones)
• A good writeup of the Nokia/Microsoft tie-up.
  (tags: microsoft nokia mobile_phones)
• Skye crofter 'last' to swim his cattle between grazings
  (tags: scotland farming)
• A nice, simple summary of the Protection of Freedoms Bill.
  (tags: freedom liberty rights uk government)
• Nokia to developers: no Qt for Windows Phone development
  (tags: qt nokia windows mobile_phones)
• Are work suits on the way out? Ties certainly seem to be (down to 18%) and a bloody good thing too.
  (tags: culture clothing uk work)

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

I can visit 166 countries without a visa. How about you?

Hm, hard to say. I hold two passports, one of which isn't listed. And if it was that wouldn't help due to overlap. Anyway, over 155.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

I was wondering this too. Over 161 countries, certainly, but I'd have to go through and check the overlap.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

Well, that's interesting. I'm definitely not Celia. Unless something interesting has happened in the time-space continuum and we've actually swapped bodies, in which case ..

.. poor Celia. Poor, poor Celia.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

I can visit 157 countries. Not so very bad really.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> Android's success has also tended to obscure the reservations of Android OEMs, who have a hard time differentiating, just as Elop feared Nokia would

Don't see why they need to. Nokia used to distinguish itself by having good hardware. And in the PC market, you all build PCs and compete mostly on price.

[andrewducker]

I originally thought they'd have an even harder time differentiating themselves with Wi9ndows Mobile, as MS have said that nobody is allowed to tweak the interface. But they've got special dispensation. I guess we'll see.