andy moore

Please join us in praying for Niger. Military junta seizes power in Niger coup: the junta, called the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, has captured the president and his ministers. – The Guardian Pray for our brothers and sisters, the members of GBEEN, the IFES movement there. Pray that they would be assured [...]

An interesting article over on the Guardian website, on “Murdoch’s diverting tiff with Google”. I found the following paragraph quite striking: And then there is the demographic change that is about to bear down on us like an enormous tidal bore of obliteration – the rise of the 10-year-old digital native. Children under 10 are [...]

Count on today’s alignment of the calendar to add some much-needed excitement to the lives of at least a few maths geeks. Today is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, 3 March [...]

I have to confess to feeling not a little upset at the news that so many temporary workers’ jobs were being lost at the Mini factory, just a stone’s throw from where we live. It’s a difficult financial climate – and our household currently has first-hand knowledge of how difficult the job market is at [...]

During George Bush’s reign in the White House, many American cars sported the bumper sticker ‘Don’t blame me, I voted for Bartlet’ – the fictional president of the TV show The West Wing. How does Obama’s team measure up? Take a look: Obama’s West Wing: Can reality match the liberal White House fantasy?

This article embodies such much of my recent thinking as we plan to develop the IFES website into what we hope will become an industry-leading example of the appropriate application of social media. “Google provides a platform and network that enables others to succeed – and when they succeed, so does Google”. You can read [...]

I’ve been reading Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope (more on that to follow), and came across the following video when browsing today. If nothing else, it shows what a good team Obama has gathered around him for both his campaign and subsequent preparation for office. I’m particularly impressed at how decisions that may seem [...]

This story captured my imagination when it was sent from a friend in Moldova last week – is there no limit to beauracracy in some parts of the world? I have included an update to the story below it, too. Moldovan police arrests Christmas tree The Christmas tree, which the Chisinau mayor ordered to be [...]

I read on BBC News today that the humble mouse is celebrating a 40-year milestone today – can you imagine life without a mouse? Source: BBC News The humble computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary today. On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers. [...]

Source: www.avaaz.org Dear friends, While the world’s attention is elsewhere, the global negotiations to tackle the climate crisis are finally reaching crunch point. World leaders gather in Poland this week to hammer out a deal that should lead to a new and powerful global treaty, but Italy and Poland are aggressively undermining the talks, while [...]