Currently in Barcelona for the 3GSM World Congress, the mobile phone industry’s annual shindig. And, blogging from the TYR Deployable Intelligence Centre Kit, aka my laptop, a length of cat 5 and a slightly iffy Internet connection, here I am. First, though, a warning to travellers. If you are heading to Barcelona on BA, Iberia…
Read More 3GSM World Congress: Iberia Pax BewareDear Lazyweb: Where can I host a small WebDAV file before Saturday afternoon? Does NTL provide this service? (I’m a customer, but I dread talking to their support line. No, “turn it off and back on again” does not answer my question.)
Read More Bleg: WebDAVWhat it says on the tin.
Read More Build Beauly-DennyThis is the kind of story journalists are meant to dream of. But just how would you headline a tale that involves a knife- and pepper-spray wielding female astronaut, an apparently fantasised love triangle, a 900-mile drive, adult nappies, and a freakout confrontation in an airport carpark? So J.G. Ballard. Fortunately it happened in the…
Read More Enter headline hereWhat a sick business the affair of the A-10A tapes is turning into. Recap: the inquest into the deaths of the Household Cav soldiers killed by a US airstrike in Iraq in the spring of 2003 had learned that the MOD’s own board of inquiry, which sat in secret, had heard a cockpit voice recorder…
Read More Something’s happening, but you don’t know what it is..OK, so there’s a memetracker web service called Visibility Index that claims to monitor “positive” and “negative” Internet activity about your company. Seems either Caterpillar, Inc. or someone with an interest in them is using it. On Sunday, I used a metaphor and described Thomas Barnett as being like a Republican caterpillar beginning to stretch…
Read More When Memetrackers AttackSebastian Junger has a spectacular report in Vanity Fair on the MEND guerrillas in the Niger Delta. Seriously, read the whole thing – we have corrupt warlords, men with Czech machine guns, huge outboards, and a crazy look in the eye, communiqués issued by a mysterious online presence, people in the US phoning their friends…
Read More Never get out of the boatEvolution appears to accelerate over time, and new scientific evidence suggests this is due to bacteria exchanging genes – but not within their own species, but horizontally, between groups. Thus, the total rate at which genetic information is exchanged can be faster than that provided by sexual reproduction and random mutations alone. Horizontal information exchange…
Read More What links these links?In Louisiana, they’re rebuilding old oil rigs as platforms for an offshore wind farm. This is about the coolest thing I’ve heard in years. When do we start doing this in the North Sea? It’s not like we haven’t got enough dead shipyards. On a related issue, Lotus seems to be enjoying a new flush…
Read More Oilrigs to turbinesThe immeasurable SpyBlog has been doing fine work reducing the bamboozlement certain bloggers have been propagating regarding government e-mail addresses and the cash-for-peerages inquiry. (Shorter: “x.gsi.gov.uk” domains denote the top level of network security, not TEH SEKRIT EMAILS!!) But the Spy has found something, though – as well as the netblocks assigned to Energis and…
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