Happy Holidays

OK so I have surrived about 10 days without the internet, but the draw of the internet cafe was too much. So I find myself having a great cup of the best coffee portugal can provide while checking my email, and having a chat to a Aussie girl about the cricket. Amazing places internet cafes …

Imperial madness !!

A sad reflection on that part of the British character that is so resistant to change… City of York council are called to account reports the BBC for using metric measurements on footpath markers. It seems that it is only the UK and the United States that continue to use miles and feet as measure …

Google Earth on the BBC

As I metioned a week or so ago the BBC called as they were putting together a piece on Google Earth, well this morning Rory Cellan Jones produced this report (realplayer) for the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the “must listen” breakfast show for the great and the good in the UK. No great insights.. …

GI Podcast

I got a call from a old friend earlier this week, who pointed me in the direction of an IT Conversations podcast which I had missed. Like many of IT conversations programmes this was a recording of a conference session, in this case the Web 2.0 conference held last October, and the topic was a …

Ethernet speeds to the home at last !!

NTL today announced that it will roll out 10Mbps broadband cable connections to its current customers at no extra cost. Great news – now if only their merger with telewest happens soon…