Pink Tape

Prince Charles (as he then was) once popularised the phrase ‘grey goo’ (Explained and Americanised by Wikipedia as ‘gray goo’). He wasn’t actually talking about AI but about nanobots. AI was merely a twinkle in a tech-bro’s eye at that point, but it sometimes it feels apt to descr...

It really was a loooong month, wasn’t it? Death, storms, and the general dank gloom that comes with this time of year. We escaped actual flooding or storm damage here, but it’s not far from us. Quite apart from the weather though, the flow of urgent tasks has been pretty relentless, there is always a remote meeting in the day’s forecast, and my days have been filled with the ...

in August 2007 right at the start of Pink Tape, I wrote a post called ‘What’s the difference between a barrister and a solicitor?’

Although that post is almost 20 years old it remains one of the all time most visited pages on this blog. Surprisingly, it remains more or less accurate (though it has a surprising number of typos and missed capitals), and it appears tha...