broadband – is flat rate really workable?
The cost and speed of broadband is something which is thrown around quite a lot. Everyone seems to see the grass as being greener on the other side of the fence – or the national border, as the case may be. However, having lived – and had broadband – in three countries recently, is it really so good on the …
Read Moresomething rotten in the state of denmark…
… except if it’s there, we didn’t find it. Just had a lovely weekend in Copenhagen visiting Thomas and Stine. Pics up on Flickr.
Read Morezonda. £1mil of car.
Ah, a perk of the job. We headed out to somewhere in west london where some people are filming various cars for the TG website. They happened to have a Pagani Zonda there. And an Austin Martin V8 Vantage (and a DB9), and a load of other nice cars. We missed a bunch of Lambo’s by a day. Pics on …
Read Morecirque du soleil – delerium (london o2)
Leonie and I went to the Cirque do Soleil show Delerium last night. Not much to say about this one – more to see, tho as I remembered the camera this time. It’s not a traditional Cirque show, it’s billed as a concert, not a circus show. Thats about right – fewer mind-bending acts, but more singing and production. One …
Read Moremore on the paradox of choice
I’ve written in the past on the paradox of choice, which is a rather interesting looking book. I found this recently on James Newton-King’s blog, and it really forced home the reason why, for me, I prefer Apple over Windows: The real kicker for me is this part (transcribed – may be slightly wrong – look at approx 9:45 – …
Read Morenew toys
So, I finally caved to the pressure (my own pressure, that is, not anyone elses) and went out and got a Time Capsule for storage and backup at home. Overall, I’m really rather impressed with it. For those who don’t know (all 1 of you), it’s basicly an Airport Extreme (which is a fairly well-spec’ed wireless router) with a built-in …
Read Moreportishead, live at the hammersmith apollo
Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrows of Portishead, ATP December 07. Pic by rubberdreamfeet. OK, so I’m a bloody idiot. For the second time, I forgot to bring a camera to a live gig, and regretted it. First Underworld, and now Portishead – things like this are exactly why we got the G9. They had signs up saying “anyone with recording …
Read Moregoogle app engine
Hrmm, now this could be a bit of a game-changer: Google AppEngine. Run your web application on google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. Integrated application environment. Easy to scale (rather like the Amazon one) Free to get started with (it’s in preview release at the moment) …
Read Morethe other kind of chicken coop
Nothing techo about these – but the number of google hits I get for chicken coops is just scary. So here’s a really cool one. This is the Omlet all-weather chicken coop. Very cool. Now all I need is a lawn to put them on.
Read Moretwitter. again.
OK, so now I get twitter. Short posts, not long enough for a blog posting, but enough to share with the world. Stability is still an issue, but other than that, the idea is all good. It’s not IM, tho – tho a lot of people seem to use it like it is…. bit public for that for me.
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