UK Urban Exploration

28 days later is a lovely site detailing its members forays into places you aren’t supposed to go. Lots of sewers, the post office train system and other fun and games.

X-ray specs

We must be pretty close to X-ray specs, now. Coming to an airport near you in the next few years.

Fairtrade

Is Fairtrade fair? I’m really not sure, but it certainly is difficult to tell. The timing of the certification process certainly seems to be out of kilter with reality. Alternative models such as GoodAfrican must be a valuable addition to the market. My...

Go the next to be cracked?

Looks like computing power is creeping up on the game of Go. Which I must get back to playing – it is great fun, but bloody hard.

Morgan M

We had a nice but “blah” meal in Morgan M a couple of years ago. Sounds like it hasn’t changed hugely.

eBuyer – one to avoid?

I’ve found a couple of low prices on eBuyer recently. Let’s hope their practice of scalping other retailers won’t result in me not getting my stuff.

Consumer power

The Indy summarises key consumer activist activities. It’s both heartning (standing up to excessive bank charges – I’d rather pay for current accounts than be stiffed for overdrafts, for example) and depressing (not flying isn’t the best way to...

Google Apps

Google already has some big hitters on its application suite. Good reasons to use it: have a thin client accessing the web and suddenly you can give all of your teams (even shop floor staff) email accounts and access to documents. $50 including tech support? Pretty...

Russian maps

Amazing quality Russian cold war maps of the UK. Just how did they do it. Were our parents all spies?