June 10, 2005

Two years ago today, The Yorkshire Ranter was born in a striplit computer room in Royal Holloway College’s International Building. Since then we’ve had ranting, spam, funnies, mystery jets, vituperation, stupidity, more ranting, and some terrible afternoons spent with HTML and frustration. I’ve picked over yards of extremely dull official documents, debated the EU with…

Why is it that nobody ever gets it right about GPS? Every time the magic navigation system is mentioned in the national press, someone always tells us that the satellites “track” the user. This time, it was the Grauniad, and worse still, it was its normally fantastic science supplement, Life. In a report about the…