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Category Archives: technology
All aboard the Facebook train!
I commute. The price I pay for living where I want to and working where I want to is approximately 4 hours a day travelling; about 2 hours 10 minutes of which are spent sitting on a train. I undertake a whole range of activities while I travel: sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I [...]
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Ding dong the witch is solar powered
The Balkan Witch is now happily solar powered by the very friendly and helpful people at ecological hosting. Thank you to Jamie for all his help rescuing my blog.
Why solar powered? It dawned on me that I bang on about the environment a lot but had failed to consider how much power was being consumed [...]
A little more voip
I signed up for a free iSip trial.
It seems to be helping me get round the fact that my direct line simply refuses to be fixed!
Yay!
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Line Rider
I like Line Rider. It reminds me a bit of a cartoon called La Linea (or Bajum Bajum!) that I used to watch when I was little. Now, thanks to Ajax web 2.0 wizadry we can make our own. Hurrah!
It’s a long way from the Dragon 32 that I had when I was 8 and [...]
Robot power
So here is quite an interesting article about the use of robots to replace humans in the workplace.
“Just give it electricity, and a robot can work for long hours, even doing repetitive work, and you don’t have to worry about labor laws,” Sudo said.
I can see the appeal from the business perspective but my first [...]
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