Thursday, May 06, 2010

Where's my flying car?

Is a modern day complaint. Where are the sci-fi devices that the futurologists of the last century promised us?
Well, the telephone in my pocket holds more information than two million Sinclair Spectrum computers. It holds the text equivalent of fifty thousand 500 page novels.
To be honest. The idea that I could carry the entire library of Alexandria in my shirt pocket is way more impressive than something as brute-force as a flying car.

Monday, May 03, 2010

Grandad

Grand-child #3, Jasper Powell born May 1st 2010
The dynasty grows!

Technical hitch might be good?

So, what happens when a digger cuts your telephone cable and chops off your DSL?

Obviously, you tether your iPhone to the 3G network and share it from your trusty Mac to all the PC's in the house!

Given that I am more than 6 klicks from the DSLAM and my DSL sucks (see previous posts) I wonder if it isn't worth leaving things that way?