One benign reason for this is that it is so much easier to write reports now than it used to be. There is some stat about the average amount of documentation that gets produced for a thing before and… (View Post)

I think SonofContrarian has been around a while. My assumption was that he was a reboot of Contrarian. Who was many things, but not, I don't think, a Putinbot. (View Post)

Looking good so far! (View Post)

Normally I'd agree. But this is a very, very low spec bit of kit. It tells the time, has a stopwatch and alarm, and lights up if you press a button. That's it. If the Chinese have managed t… (View Post)

I love a boring interlude on pb.com. If the topic most exercising us is our choice of wristwear, it's a sign that - well, not quite that all's-right-with-the-world, but any impending apocal… (View Post)