Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread on Apr 30th, 2007 No Comments »
I don’t know about others but I am fairly constantly amazed by the Internet: this, in itself, surprises me a little - given I’ve been using the Internet pretty well daily for over 12 years now.
My ‘amazement’ today was whilst talking, via Skype, to my good friend Helen. We (whilst chatting away on Skype - [...]
Posted in The Main Thread on Apr 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, Broadband in Australia is getting a bit of a hammering by the press and might even play as an election issue.
Having not that long ago returned from the UK where I had a 10Mbps (yes 10 Megabits!) cable connection I find the prices ‘comparable’ - the 10M connection, 60G allowance was approx (~£40) $100/month. [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Having recently purchased a modern MP3 player (my old one is a small - albeit very useful - brick, an Archos Jukebox Multimedia 20 ) I very quickly ran into that old gem ‘the good thing about standards are there are so many of them’. Interoperability continues to be more hype, it seems, than reality. [...]