Archive for September 2007

Browsing

Looking round the computer room, it’s a shame to see the number of people still using IE6 instead of the latest version of Firefox - either they don’t know it’s installed here, or they just don’t use it.
Unfortunate that the only alternative is Internet Explorer 6 - IE7, while still far from perfect, is at [...]

Posted at 10:46 on September 21st 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

Lame Excuses

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…and finally, originally uploaded by alexmuller.
I love you, METRO

Posted at 9:03 on September 16th 2007, tagged as , with one comment

Into London

Just got back from Regent Street – had a play with the new iPod Classic and Nano, and the interface on both of them (as well as slight size reductions) makes them absolutely lovely…
Saw the following poster on the tube – as far as I can gather, it’s a Barclaycard with integrated Oyster Card – [...]

Posted at 15:18 on September 9th 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

Speed Test

Apple Store UK Speed Test
Originally uploaded by alexmuller

I think I need to go and live in the Apple Store, Regent Street
Eight and a half megabit per second upload?!?

Posted at 16:48 on September 8th 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet

Positive Government Response

Positive? – no, I haven’t gone crazy just yet. A little over a month ago I got an email from “10 Downing Street” saying that the Government had responded to an online petition with almost 3000 signatures, asking for the piccadilly line to stop at Turnham Green station. They responded with a complete we-can’t-be-bothered cop-out:
Responsibility [...]

Posted at 11:10 on September 7th 2007, tagged as , with one comment

Statistics

I like the stats, so…
2065 - number of emails in Gmail since October 26th, 2004
3067 - number of digg.com stories and videos I’ve dugg
6987 - number of RSS entries read in Google Reader over the last 30 days
8095 - number of songs scrobbled to last.fm since May 17th, 2006
Interested to see the statistics that last.fm [...]

Posted at 21:02 on September 3rd 2007, tagged as , with no comments yet