nickjones
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A bad day for my Treo yesterday – its aerial snapped away from the casing! also was the last day of my O2 contract, which included insurance! Aghh. Rang the so called member services number for O2 on 0870 444 3333 to be left hanging on for 30 minutes (you would thing that a telecomms…
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Discovered the wonderful Shields Up software that simulates an attack on your computer and publishes all your systems vulnerabilities. Good old Smoothwall at home scored top marks.
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Discovered a wasps nest on my balcony this morning, theough www.eyp.co.uk I discovered Five star pest control (01223 264999) very fast and efficient service arrived on time. Very good at £35 and guaranteed treatment. poor wasps are looking very angry and agitated now! Recommended for wasp nest removal in and around Cambridge UK
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A truly tragic story here of how a 86 year old guy mistook his accelerator for the brake and killed 10 people in Santa Monica USA. And I guess this sort of thing is going to be more frequent as the population ages and have to use cars as they live on their own. A…
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An excellent blog at waxy.org here which gave me this link to a site for re-organising all my MP3’s that I re-discovered this weekend. Interesting that the idea of ripping CD’s is now filtering down to my more computer illiterate friends. The time must be ripe to offer a ripping service onto a USB hard…
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And here is a new example of social networking done by upmystreet.com where you can post messages and form a community based on your post code. Came across this snippett about instant crowds “There is this new thing happening in New York, where people arrange to create instant crowds for 10 minutes or so throughout…
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And here is an awesome use of the new camera phone technology where a 15 year old in USA had presence of mind to take piccy of his alleged abductor. Full report here
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an excellent article about mobile blogging with a good selection of blog links. interesting about police closing down media centres. This convergence of phones / cameras / and internet is really going to change democracy for the better IMHO
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An interesting titbit here about out the SMS messaging centre in Mumbai India was shut down so that demonstrators couldnt use it! So take your carrier pigeons next time you demonstrate or maybe use a 802.11 access point Umm wonder if you can buy a pda/phone with both GSM and 802.11 technology built in.
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And this surely must have a huge future – “With Project Hive you can easily publish short articles and pictures of demonstrations or direct actions with your mobile phone or pda. This is useful because you often don’t have a computer around you in some situations” A mobile blog for demonstrators at the recent G8…