I was chatting with a student the other day about an interesting proposal to stick a black box in all of Milan's taxis. This box of tricks would be linked to GPS, UMTS and other services and would be able to tell just what the ideal route for a destination is, meaning that the old trick of taking … [Read more...]
Windows start up time
September 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
OK, so I now have a laptop with a cutting edge cpu, lots of ram, a fast hard disk and a reasonable graphics card, so why is it still so slow? Let me make myself a bit clearer, it's not slow to open applications and to apply graphics effects but it is slow in starting up and shutting down, and I … [Read more...]
The Pope says sorry
September 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Good, bit late, but at least he did apologise. Still, it was an odd mistake for someone considered to be an 'intellectual heavyweight' to make, unless all this excessive intellect has led him to become somewhat arrogant. The worst case scenario would be that there was no mistake, but that the … [Read more...]
New Dell laptop
September 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
My new Dell 6400 pc turned up today. It's one of those wide-screen things, it has a hottish CPU - a 2ghz core duo 2, 1 gig of ram and a 7200rpm 100Gb hard disk. It does seem much faster than my 3 year old Sony, thankfully. However, unlike my three year old Sony I have already had to call … [Read more...]
The Pope’s words – pot and kettles and blackness
September 15, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Oh dear, the Pope seems to have got himself in trouble with the Muslims over a quotation he chose to use when talking about the historic relationship between Christianity and Islam.Muslims seem to have got all hot and bothered and the press is throwing lots of coals into the fire. But why all the … [Read more...]
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