Monthly Archives: March 2008

Open all hours

By dom | Published: 2008-03-23

Trying to buy a Wifi connection card last night (or this morning, to be precise) I got a message from Telefonica’s online shop: “Store open between 12:00 and 07:00″! What, the shopkeeper needs some downtime? I’ll refrain from saying “bloody typical”. Oops, just did…

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Hmmm… latency…

By dom | Published: 2008-03-20

3G?

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Arthur C. Clarke

By dom | Published: 2008-03-19

Hero to every geek, most likely, and certainly one of mine. 90 isn’t a bad age for anyone, I think, and if you happen to be able meld science fiction and “real” science for most of that time, unbeatable. I think the fact that he wrote sci-fi that was so fact-checked and rigourous that it [...]

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Question Box: one-key, no-screen internet

By dom | Published: 2008-03-04

This is an interesting idea, that seems slightly mad at first, then starts to make perfect sense once you think about it. Then it seems really obvious. Then it makes me think about that fact that I already provide this service to family members! Cool.

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IE8 wants to be free

By dom | Published: 2008-03-04

Fairly surprisingly (no, really bloody amazingly) the IE team has decided to make IE8 “interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can“. This is a welcome change (although we’re still having to make things work for IE6, of course!) What’s interesting about it is the willingness to put themselves on the side [...]

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