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Wireless Technologist and Entrepreneur
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18/10/2007 Infinite Loop read more.. |
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20/07/2007 Land Rover UK Customer CO2 Offsets Land Rover UK are bundling a Customer CO2 Offset into the on-the-road price of all year 2007 models. This means that anyone in the UK who buys a new Land Rover in 2008, will also be paying towards environmental projects (through Climate Care) that reduce CO2 emissions globaly by roughly the same amount that [...] read more.. |
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23/06/2007 Kiva.org I was going to write a rambling post about Facebook and social networking sites today, but I found something much more worthwhile to do. I discovered a short video about a site called KIVA through Guy Kawasaki’s blog. Kiva is a P2P micro finance site that connects normal people in developed countries with entrepreneurs and [...] read more.. |
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29/11/2006 PokerLeagueSpain.com The very latest project I’m working on is a joint venture between a pair of professional gamblers and myself. PokerLeagueSpain.com is a pub poker league for the Costa del Sol. Playing poker for points (not cash) has taken UK pubs by storm as an alternative to quiz nights and darts tournaments. The game’s popularity has [...] read more.. |
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14/04/2006 Rural Internet Connectivity It seems the further you move from the hubs of civilisation, the worse your connection to the Net becomes. We’ve moved from a busy seaside town where we were able to connect via 1Meg ADSL at 1Mb/s downstren, 250Kb/s upstream. Had we felt the need we could have got an 8Meg connection (actually about 7.2Mb/s, [...] read more.. |
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24/03/2006 Fon router running Ok, the installation went smoothly apart from the 5 min window the firmware gives you to register. I was setting it up on the back of my Apple AirPort Extreme working as a LAN modem. I did it this way for various reasons (not least of which is the proxy server on my satellite broadband [...] read more.. |
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02/03/2006 My Fon router has arrived! I’m happy today. There’s a nice, boxy UPS parcel sitting on my Wife’s desk with my name on it. It contains a Linksys WRT54GS Wireless Router. No not your typical wireless router, I already have an Apple AirPort Extreme and I’m very happy with it; I’m blogging this right now via its built-in V90 modem. [...] read more.. |
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02/03/2006 Intel iMac On Tuesday I got a call from Patti, her old iMac (CRT) had died, propably a hardrive falure, but like all sensible computer users, she has a fairly recent backup of all her work (Gulp!). I reccomended an Apple Centre that I know does good work: Newton Systems in Gibraltar, but Patti went shopping and [...] read more.. |
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21/02/2006 NetDisaster I like this site; finaly a cool use for AJAX technology that relieves stess! Try it, I could play with this all day NetDisaster.com read more.. |
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06/02/2006 FON gets backing from Google, Skype and VCs This Madrid based start-up that I’ve been keeping my eye on has just announced a $18m Venture Capital deal with Google, the founders of Skype, Index and Sequoia (2 ‘Valley VC firms). FON is a great way to share your broadband connection without leaving your home network open to attack and do some social networking at [...] read more.. |