Ah… I love visual things, and technology history, so these are just perfect

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A big thank you to Pingdom for bring them to my attention (there are loads more here).

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Thank to Tim C for this one:

The low cost of video creation and production is changing the world, just as affordable home recording equipment did in the 80’s. It is going to change a d few things.

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For some reason, a bit of a photography theme today…
First these two pictures from my week in the US last week.
The first seen by the roadside as I was driving along:

Forget this wireless stuff - I want HI/FI Internet in my hotel room! Bigger pictures and better text, right?
Next up, from a tradeshow I attended:

“Everyone’s [...]

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It seems that BBC Micro retrospectives are sweeping the web.
The BBC ran a story: Beeb creators reunite at museum on the recent meeting at the science museum.  There is a great video embedded in the story, showing the BBC Micro loading programs from a cassette tape. Ah, those were the days, waiting fifteen minutes and [...]

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Yesterday morning saw me working form the Tuttle club, AKA London Social Media Cafe, hosted by Lloyd Davis. There were a lot of people on site and the clatter of keyboards was slightly drowned out by the chatter of conversation.
It was a very positive experience and set me off thinking on a number of threads. [...]

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A very nice evening yesterday, seeing Steve Lawson, Yolanda Charles and Todd Johnson in concert at Darbucka, which turns out to be a rather special little venue in NE London. Not great for photography, as it is very dark, but a nice atmosphere, great food and there was enough mobile coverage to do a little [...]

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So, you are wondering how to find the nearest hotspot? This one spotted via an article on The Register:
Get yourself one of these, for a mere £20 or so:

A Wi-Fi Detecting T-Shirt
How could we have survived all this time without one? Of course, you could always put that money towards a month or two of [...]

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Every so often I like to do something different for a change. Learning new skills and meeting new people keeps you young and flexible. With that in mind, I signed up to a meeting of London Flickr folks, to do an overnight photo walk in London. As a result, I met a great bunch [...]

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Ah… the Nabaztag Rabbit. I’d forgotten how badly I needed one of these until I saw a post on Girly Geekdom that reminded me about them. The Nabaztag (Armenia for rabbit apparently) is a cute looking WiFi enabled smart device, which has recently been updated with lots of new capabilities. It can indicate the status [...]

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I’ve been a long-time fan of the Quiet PC folks, from the days when they were based down the road. However, I’m in a bad mood with them now, as they just emailed me details of the Zalman 2D/3D monitors. You need the appropriate 3D glass and nVidia card (and not Windows Vista as the [...]

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