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Wednesday May 10, 2006

How to get a date with Bluetooth

Software

Bluetooth is hip. And not just because you can use it to show off that you have an acceptably recent telephone, laptop or PDA. No, it's actually also useful to exchange v-cards after a business meeting or photos after a concert or other day/night out with friends.

And there's more: Bluejacking. The art of sending messages and photos to unknown devices to initiate contact. And attract sexy girls, apparently. Or so says How to get a date by Blackjacking?.

I have actually gotten a dozen of messages and photos over Bluetooth, so that's fun. Although sometimes in the subway I get icky .sis files which of course I deny, even though they look like viruses for Windows based devices which none of mine are (K750i phone, Linux laptop). But dates? Nope. Still, I like the way they put it:

With the built in camera in your phone you can take your picture and send it to her - moments later you get a tap on the shoulder and ......

Well, you get the idea.

The advantage is that you now have something in common to talk about - the art of BlueJacking.

Best of all this is completely and 100% free of charge - no 10p text messages or phone calls and not finding that the other person lives 150 miles away - they are in the same bar/pub/bowling alley/tube or train as you are.

So the future is Blue, not Orange.

Lovely.

Pro-depression

Anglosphere

Regardless of what you think of the effects of abortion on the embryo, it's bad for mommy:

Researchers found that at age 25, 42 per cent of women in the study group who had had an abortion also experienced major depression at some stage during the past four years.

This was nearly double the rate of those who had never been pregnant and 35 per cent higher than those who had chosen to continue a pregnancy.

Interesting, it's rare for the abortion debate to include any science. This will sound a little simplistic, but I think everyone would be happier if we had fewer major depressions.

Die already. Please?!

European Union

Barosso is in a mission to wake the European constitution from death.

"We have to take decisions for the future," he said. "I think it's best to have a new institutional settlement for the union before the end of this Commission and parliament."

Best for whom? For us, citizens, or for the Commission and parliament?

The prevailing view in Brussels is that no serious decisions on the constitution can be taken until after Dutch and French elections next spring.

Hey, Brussels! We said no. And not just parliament, but the entire chamber agreed to respect that. So our elections matter not: no is no.

Other initiatives seemed designed to do the bare minimum to assuage concerns in countries such as France that the EU is not doing enough to promote the concept of "social Europe".

Citizens could be offered a new entitlement card setting out their existing rights as members of the EU. There would also be an ill-defined "comprehensive stocktaking of today's European society and an agenda for universal access and solidarity".

Okay, I'm willing to give that initiative a try. If the EU manages to summarise citizen rights to make them fit on a creditcard-sized document, then maybe they can do the same for the constitution and remove enough crud to make it worth a second look.

Otherwise. Die already, constitution. Please?!

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