The Register: E-lection is turn-off (except for ridicule). Like in many other countries which voted recently, the public in the UK is often quoted with sentences like: 'It isn't a real election', 'I vote X cause they're less worse' or 'Why should i vote if i don't like the candiates at all'. All over the world a part of public is expecting something which can't be delivered by 'classical' political parties/movements.

This could be your finest hour: Cisco is hungry again and eyes a $17bn takeover of Marconi (Variuos links from the FT).

"Is Java ready for prime time? It's just like 2.5G (the next generation of high speed phone networks). People are sitting in the boat as the boat is being built." The CNET article Cell phone industry infiltrates JavaOne show points out that J2ME is still the platform of choice for 2.5 and 3G handsets.

When you can't write, write about not being able to write. Ftrain.com via Le Sofa.