Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category

The Difficult 2nd Album

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

LugRadio, episode 2

Apparently, they’ve sold out and will be supporting Simple Minds at Wembley Stadium (seen as its a building site at the moment it seems appropriate).

I’d offer to provide bandwidth myself, but it is Aq’s server anyway.

[Currently listening to: Episode 2 - LugRadio - (42:57)]

The Sucessors to Mark and Lard

Friday, February 27th, 2004

Lug Rardio is inspirational. Yes, I now want to go down the pub with a few friends and take the piss out of slashdot for 22 minutes.

I do wonder why the bleeper/farting machine was only turned on half way through the session and why it was only Aq who has to say the work fuck repeatedly. I feel the others left themselves down and myself down on this front.

I should point out that personally it isn’t radio unless it is broadcast and I can listen in live. Maybe you could have the equivilent of a phone-in via IRC.

More please (I’ve burnt a copy to listen to in my car).

E-mail, Email, email, website, Web site, or web site

Friday, December 13th, 2002

E-mail, Email or email? and Website, Web site or web site? discusses how to spell email and web site. I agree with his decisions, but it was nice to see some research and reasoning behind the decision.

Software in Public Transport

Wednesday, December 11th, 2002

Danny O’Brien, in Software in the Public Transport Interest, discusses online journey planners, GPS and the following service :

Now add into the mix services like NextBus, which monitors and shares info on the realtime position of all the buses in San Francisco. Wrap it all into some portable device (or wireless service), that lets me provide an street address, and plots a route and ETA on the fly.

NextBus shows for each stop a list of future bus arrivals (e.g. next arrival in 2 minutes / 5 minutes). This would be a great addition to my thoughts on future online travel.

Whilst at the bus stop, you can get electronic boards with this sort of information on it, but they are quickly vandalised and probably quite expensive. Better to have a wireless node at the bus stop (hidden discretely)? Or you could sit in a nearby cafe with a coffee instead of waiting in the cold at the bus stop (as I did today. Brrr.)

Epistula gets Syndicated

Tuesday, September 24th, 2002

Aquarion is fed up with the RSS/RDF war. I concur and will just keep totally out of it until the dust has settled.

Maybe then will be a good time to learn about it. Until then, I’ll check out ESF

Just Don’t Spam say Boffins

Monday, July 22nd, 2002

Look, scientific proof[1] that spam doesn’t pay.

[1] Okay, evidence