This video is making the news: HP Computers are racist. "Black Desi" and "White Wanda" show what happens when they move in front of a new HP laptop with a face recognition camera. The camera moves to track the light-skinned woman, but does not move for the dark-skinned man - even when he gets close.

Of course, the computers aren't really racist - ( Read more... )

I haven't said very much about the "Racefail" business that's been happening on various parts of the internet due to lack of coherent comment, but I thought of something interesting yesterday ( Read more... )

I haven't got round to writing anything constructive about my doctor's appointment on Tuesday because I'm still processing. More about the actual health stuff later.

Got weighed again and discovered that since coming off mirtazapine ( Cut for weight-related triggers. )

OK, so I'm not completely un-geeky. Today I finally got sick of the computer at work that's been running at the speed of treacle, and took an hour out of my life to fix it. It was absolutely infested with viruses and spyware. I deleted over 1000 of them! Computers with 1000 pieces of malware really don't run at their optimal speed ( Read more... )

I have a doctor who has been treating me for mental health stuff for years, who I trust with my life and medication even though he's "only" a GP with a special interest in mental health rather than a psychiatrist. He's a remarkably intelligent and perceptive man, and he likes to say things to patients like me to provoke us into taking charge of ( Read more... )

A question for the parents out there - what is the right thing to do in these circumstances ( Read more... )

Every time I visit North America, I get reminded how impractical European ideas about slowing down global warming are. We think the North Americans should just stop using their cars to drive everywhere, and forget how spread out North American cities are. Because they are not short of space, things there are far, far more spread out than at home. ( Read more... )

Post written last night at the airport ( Read more... )

Crossed an interesting mental line on Sunday night.

( My history with cooking, for those who don't know... )

I have some odd criteria for partner selection ( Read more... )