Author: nickjones

Pretty amazing technology that stops a saw blade in 5ms if your finger gets into contact. SawStop Videos taken from the engadget blog

A wonderful description about the origins of modern wheat given by the man who has saved more lifes than any other. Borlaug: No. As a matter of fact, Mother Nature has crossed species barriers, and sometimes nature crosses barriers between genera–that is, between unrelated groups of species. Take the case of wheat. It is the […]

Now we know why it was called bluetooth!. Toothing! – Toothing FAQ Especially like the utility called blue chat!

Another charlatan outed here The Doctor Is Out apparently the Dr in front of John Gray (Men are from mars) is one of the ones you buy of the shelf. Well done to the folks who dug deep and had to confront a lawyer! reminds me a bit of our own lovable Jeffery Archer. And […]

A new version of Mozilla Mozilla 1.7 Beta given how much I like Firefox will downloadn this tonight. Should be good to hotsync tthe Treo 600 to it.

An excellent article on what is web logging and its rise from the home page. Personally the main feature of weblogs is the facility of anyone adding comments, in fact the comments can become more valuable than the original article! plasticbag.org | weblog | (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything…

This is really the most incredible story of the British government demanding money back from people who were WRONGLY CONVICTED and thrown into prison. Thats right INNOCENT people having to pay the government!We locked you up in jail for 25 years and you were innocent all along? That’ll be £80,000 please – [Sunday Herald]

Lucky British guests who stayed overnight at the White House between June 2002 and December 2003 and those who spent the night at Camp David last year::- British Prime Minister Tony Blair Alastair Campbell : British prime minister’s communications director Tom Kelly: Spokesman for British government. Sir David Manning: Foreign policy adviser with British government. […]

A really tiny single board PC , smaller than a credit card. On board booting to linux. LinuxElectrons – General Micro Systems Announces Industry’s Smallest SBC

Just been bugged by an investment outfit wanting to sell shares in this outfit Welcome to CarBug interesting blend of GSM/ GPS/ GIS hardware and software product for tracing your errant wife or car only about £500 plus £10 a month for SIM card