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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sick of having to turn the TV volume down when ads come on, and then back up when the programme proper starts again? From a viewer / consumer perspective, being virtually deafened by a sudden blast of too-loud sound when the ad break starts is very annoying, to say the least. Well, if you're in the UK, you're in luck. Following a consultation by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP)...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Recently overheard: " - it's from a speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury , you know, what's his name again..?" " Rowan Atkinson ". (The curent Archbish is, of course, Rowan Williams . Though I can certainly picture Mr Bean with a tall hat!) Tags: humor , funny , Improbulus , A Consuming Experience
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Did you know Google's search page includes an online calculator & converter ? One of my very IT literate friends didn't know this trick, so I thought I'd post this tip. In the standard Google search box, if you type in a calculation then hit enter or Search, it'll actually do the calculation online for you, and provide the answer where you'd normally get search results displayed. Use * for multiply,...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Speed tip: if you're a faster PC go go keyboard person like me and use Internet Explorer , try installing this speedup searching hack for Internet Explorer , for quicker access to Google. I use Ctrl-l to call up the address bar then type g then space then my search, for very quick results (or you can just click in the address bar then type the keyword for the site you want to search, space, then the...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Recording of talk by Prof Lawrence Lessig at the Institution of Engineering & Technology, London for the Society for Computers & Law (free download under a Creative Commons licence, of course!) - just click the arrow to play it online: Prof. Lessig on Corruption 2.0 (see the main page with links to the intro speech etc ): "In this lecture, Professor Lessig builds upon the work of Oxford Professor Jonathan...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I've posted the full video of this talk, given at the joint London Geek Dinner & London Girl Geek Dinner of 26 April 2008, on the Girlygeekdom blog ( main video on Blip ) - but here's a short excerpt, just for fans of reality TV show The Apprentice , of the provocative bit where Sophie Kain, as she puts it, "slags off" Sir Alan Sugar! More seriously, the extract is on whether it's easier for geeks...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Jonathan Zittrain virtually needs no introduction: world-renowned expert and visionary on the internet and the law / society, professor at Oxford 's Oxford Internet Institute and co-founder of Harvard 's Berkman Center for Internet & Society , his book "The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It" just came out on 1 May. I was lucky enough to be at the book launch in London , chaired by ORG head...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Just saw this ad in a MicroAnvika pullout in T3 magazine , the gadget mag I read in spite of their ridiculous attitude to women . The last sentence made me laugh. The claim it so makes breathlessly is certainly correct, strictly speaking. But it scares me that they think it would actually impress people who read it. Maybe they're targeting the Dumb Britain crowd. I hope... Now what would really impress...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Blogger have, as they earlier heralded , finally rolled out the ability for Blogger users to post-date their posts, i.e. write a post and then schedule it for publishing at a future date and time of your choosing. The ability to postpone or delay blog posts written in advance has been in demand for years. This facility is great for holidays, spacing out your blog posts more evenly over the week, etc....
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Thought I'd blog this fast in case all the books go... you can register on the Blog a Penguin Classic site and if you're fast enough you will get sent a free Penguin Classic book to review. Titles are sent out at random. In return you have to post a review of the book on the Blog a Penguin Classic site within 6 weeks after you receive it. Fair enough! It's a simple and brilliant idea. Kudos to whoever...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
In the market for a portable computer? On the left - a Sony Vaio laptop computer. Yours for only £1599. On the right - an Asus Eee notebook computer. A penny under £200 (!) - for the 2GB version ; the 4GB is a shade under £250 . No wonder Asus can barely make enough Eees to meet the demand... Tags: Sony Vaio , Asus Eee , Improbulus , A Consuming Experience
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Thanks to 3mobilebuzz I have been testing 3 's new Huawei E169G high speed mobile broadband USB dongle for portable computers on a short term free trial of 3's mobile broadband service . Here's a pic of what you get in the box: You remove the USIM card (like a SIM card for mobile phones) from the plastic card and bung it into a removable USIM holder in the stick. Remove the end cap and insert the dongle...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Maybe I'm behind, but I've just found out that members of certain London libraries, like City of London or City of Westminster , can have free access, for non-commercial use, from any computer - including their home computer (not just library computers) - to a wide range of useful online material or resources which have been subscribed to and paid for by the library / local authority, including: music...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Are you going to be poised at your computer at 11 am on Thursday 24 April? If so, please do me a favour - sign me up for BarCampLondon4 , and I'll not only be eternally grateful but I'll also buy you a dim sum or other lunch, tea & cakes, or drinks, as you prefer. (My name you know, my email you'll know from my sidebar.) The downside - it'll have to be with me. But I think you already knew that...
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A Consuming Experience (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
If you show content from other sites' feeds in the body or sidebar of your blog or website, you could get sued for their content, at least in France. A recent case there is, it seems, the first ever instance in the world of a court holding a site responsible for someone else's RSS feed content. This is a seriously bad development in my view. Lots of people display content from other sites' RSS feeds...
