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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The other mentions a Rupert N Goodwin, a 75 year old petroleum geologist from Louisiana. I'd like to say that my journalistic ethics forbade me to buy shares in companies about which I write: in truth, there's nowhere near enough liquidity in...
[November 1, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If all these biometrics are so good, do I need anything other than my fingertips, my iris and the ability to say "I am Rupert Goodwins and I claim my fifty quid beer money"? Monday 29/8/2005 Bank Holiday.
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yours truly has been roped in to help with the moving process, and will be spending this weekend busily wiring up computers, video recorders and ‘the sort of thing Rupert does'. Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd...
[September 26, 1998, 7:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now imagine being called, oh, Rupert Goodwins. It was to allow the casting director of the movie franchise to pick for the role of Ron Weasley, Potter's best pal, a previously unknown child actor with the name of Rupert Grint.
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog From: Rupert Goodwins Rupert and no, he couldn't help) Friday 10/2/2006 And talking of roaming… Just a couple of days to go now before I and my pals scoot off to 3GSM. For those that care, my total email count of GSM-related PR requests is now...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog The software asks whether I want to make this new Pilot "Rupert Goodwins"? Did they listen to Uncle Rupert? Dream that Bill Gates is planning to send over 800 satellites into space and set up Internet Of The Air, thus bypassing all the telephone...
[January 18, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We could easily have a new syntax to mark which emails are to be sent by the new system, something like rupert.goodwins|@|zdnet.co.uk, and we could have it up and running in months -- at least on a trial basis.
[August 22, 2003, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If I ever get around to doing a proper website to promote Rupert Goodwins, Inc.that's now an option -- although, oddly, nobody's got around to squatting the .com, .net, .org or .co.uk versions of my web presence.
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This wireless networking, Rupert. Now QVC has discovered that you can market unwanted Tablet PCs to people who hate keyboards: the beloved matriarch of the Goodwins clan being one such. Wednesday 5/08/2003
[August 8, 2003, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rupert Goodwins' Diary is NOT a guide to major enterprise-level investment strategies. Wednesday 3/12/2003 Cap Gemini Ernst & Young: An Apology Last month, I wrote a short piece about Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's new enterprise project management...
[December 5, 2003, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rupert," says the worried voice, "that wasn't exactly accurate. A pragmatic cleric, Goodwins Senior. Down in Plymouth, dropping Number One Son off with his grandparents for the last blast of the summer holidays.
[August 23, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's Rupert and the Sky Gnomes! Sorry, Rupert. Wednesday 3/8/2005 Hey, man! Look over there! My namesake Mr Murdoch is feeling the pressure from Freeview and digital cable, and as a result he's reported to be pondering giving away his Sky+ personal...
[August 5, 2005, 18:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rupert to Earth, Rupert to Earth, come in Earth. Hola! Apologies for the hiatus in the diary, chaps, but sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. In this case, a combination of successive Fridays spent either out of the country or out of...
[July 16, 1999, 18:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog HELLO RUPERT, MY NAME IS DR SBAITSO. Thursday 30/05/2002 I AM HERE TO HELP YOU. The doctor is in, and he's ten years old! I know there's some other anniversary on at the moment, but Dr Sbaitso -- copyright 1992 -- is back on my PC and that's all...
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One of young Rupert's biggest disappointments on coming to crime-ridden London from the peace and quiet of the Devonian countryside was how thick most of the criminals were. Monday 24/11/2003 Brought up to expect thieves' kitchens stuffed with...
[November 28, 2003, 15:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rupert is off today, sampling the delights of historical -- and doubtless hysterical -- Brussels. Friday 20/06/2002 KPNQWest corporate anthem: All I Need Is A Miracle Whatever happens, you won't be reading about it here.
[June 21, 2002, 11:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rupert thinks about this. Thursday 2/3/2006 Tada! says BT. Look! DSL Max! Vrrooooom! We can make DSL go as fast as 8Mbps! How does that differ from the DSL you put into my flat in 1998 during the trials?
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog OK - that's the end of Rupert's PR Masterclass! Friday 5/9/2003 I hope you've enjoyed this brief refresher course, and are ready for that pre-Christmas push into the party season (and special thanks to Virgin Mobile for the first festive invite.
[September 5, 2003, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 26/1/2005 The Eternal September has finally ended, twelve years after it began. To be sure, it probably won't make much difference now -- but it's a piece of early Net history that shouldn't go unmarked.
[January 28, 2005, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thursday 27/1/2005 Young Graeme -- young, newly ennobled News Editor Graeme, who we can't call Scoop any more -- went along last night to the ISPA Forum on Content Regulation at Westminster. Ofcom has been making some worrying noises that its fat...
[January 28, 2005, 17:30]
