Monthly Archives: August 2008

Zen and the art of cool coding

I just love this: The tagline for the Supercoder 2000 is: “Air cooled coding keyboard for professional use”

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Synchronised Kettle Boiling (topical – see Olympics)

Another astounding (and very worrying) focus of “Britain from above” was the chap sitting at a console waiting for “Eastenders” to finish so that he could manage the electricity surge (and high demand) placed on the national grid by us … Continue reading

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Blistering BT

Just one of the amazing facts from Episode one of the excellent “Britain From Above” presented by Jeremy Vine (another credit to the outstanding output of the BBC): British Telecom shifts 2 million megabytes of data per hour, equivalent to … Continue reading

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Cumbrian Summer (aka rain)

I am beginning to think there’s something in this ‘European monsoon’ notion and I think the epicentre lies directly over Cumbria. Apart from a week of sunshine in July (ironically when we we out of the country), summer appears to … Continue reading

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