I received the following email three times in the past week and from people who I’d class to be net-savvy: If you travel to work on the tube please note the following information: If your mobile phone has no signal (if you are in a tunnel) you can dial 112 and it will divert to [...]
Archive | July, 2005
Mobile phone tools syncronisation software
I’m not all that convinced with the syncronisation software from Avanquest called mobile Phone Tools that came with my new Motorola v3. It wouldn’t sync with Outlook out of the box and now that I’ve paid the additional £20 (converted) to download a full version I can’t fully sync my contacts. All I need to [...]
Motorola v3
I got my new phone today. My first clamshell, a Motorola v3. I like it, a lot, it’s small and thin but suprisingly large when opened fully. Inital comments: Star Trek communicator It should be black* Feels sturdier than I thought it would Can’t re-configure the buttons or change the menu items on the home [...]
Super cool keyboard
Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/ Concept only
Mini Golf
I had to switch it off else I’d get no work done: http://www.electrotank.com/playGame.electro?gId=119
Load on BBC webservers, 7 July 2005
The BBC have published a page containing stats on the load of their servers last Thursday, the day of the London bombings. http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/07July_Statistics.shtml At peak times during the day there were 40,000 page requests per second from News Total maximum bandwidth from bbc.co.uk reached: 11.1Gb/s (In addition to this there was up to 3Gb/sec going [...]
Sony EX71 headphone spares – ‘ear pads’
I have some great headphones for my iPod, Sony MDR-EX71′s. They are the newer type of in-ear headphones where they sort of stick into your ear canal rather than resting in your ear. I like them because they: Sound great and are certainly much better than the rubbish white ones that come with the iPod. [...]
In case of Emergency (ICE)
http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/content/ice/default.asp http://www.icecontact.com/ East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE) “campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston and in association with Vodafone’s annual life savers award. The idea is that you store the word “I C E” in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter [...]
I don’t like that green spider
As Cathie walked the kids home from nursery last night Eden my daughter recoiled from something – as far as was physically possible from the seat of the pram – chanting [in two and bit year old speak] “I don’t like that green spider”. It turns out that the ‘spider’ was a teeny weeny aphid [...]
E11 Residents Report 11
The following was emailed out to opt-in subscribers by Cllr Clyde Loakes on the 12th July 2005. The document has been posted in its entiretly. That Announcement! I was always one of the optimistic few and once I saw the 2012 Team’s final amazing presentation to the IOC in Singapore, I knew we had clinched [...]