by Tom | Nov 22, 2007 | Personal
Jo suggests that this toy looks a little like my brother-in-law. It does, I guess.
by Tom | Nov 22, 2007 | Reading
What thought process led to “let’s break your leg for £100k insurance”, both parties agreed and they filmed it taking place. Ouch.
by Tom | Nov 22, 2007 | Reading
A fun list of bizarre legal cases. I loved number 4: stealing a railway station.
by Tom | Nov 22, 2007 | IT
A quick script to build your own URL shortener. Nice idea, but some of the discussion of the pros and cons of such a service have made me think again about deploying it at work or home. (Summary: given that URLs just work and most are clicked as links, why put another...
by Tom | Nov 22, 2007 | Reading
How did I miss Kindle, Amazon’s new eBook reader – that’s a substantial line extension. Shame it isn’t in the UK yet. As one of the commentators said: does Apple have an instant competitor with the iPhone+iTunes Store?
by Tom | Nov 12, 2007 | Reading
Great idea: virtual phones to see if you want to buy one. I decided against the Nokia N95 by flicking through a few menus at a friend’s house on the weekend. This should speed up some more negative decisions.
by Tom | Oct 30, 2007 | IT
While the Palm install tool continues not to work on Vista, Pilot Install does the job.
by Tom | Oct 30, 2007 | Reading
I like the synchronicity thing: Pepys had bad weather and a stinking cold last week. Same as me.
by Tom | Oct 30, 2007 | Reading
Flightstats looks useful – tracks flight information wherever you are. They have a mobile version that does the business.Looks like there is a mobile train timetable still as well as a WAP version of TfL.
by Tom | Oct 30, 2007 | Reading
I think the idea of GPS units talking to each other to understand traffic conditions is an excellent one. So long as the contributors are anonymised, it can’t but help improve travel conditions.
