The Rice and the Chessboard – how the Internet has ruined life for the better
There is a story about a Chinese man who invented the game of Chess. The Chinese emperor at the time said something like ‘what can I give you for your reward?’. The gentleman replied that on his chessboard, he would have one piece of rice on one square, two on the next, four on the [...]
August 23, 2009
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Pay your PIN by PIN
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a rant about using PINs to pay for your items with credit cards (though while I’m at it, all the leaflets and stuff that were going round at the time that Morrisons changed said that using PINs were more secure – surely it is much easier to remember [...]
April 24, 2009
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The Incredible Games
For a very long time now, I have been asking a question of people I meet.В The question is thus: Do you remember a kids game show where they were in a lift, and each floor was a different game.В Pretty much everybody I ask remembers the show, but they, like me, cannot remember the [...]
June 20, 2007
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