The odd tale of Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing

27 Feb 2010: A company calling itself Alphascript Publishing and Betascript Publishing is taking articles from Wikipedia and publishing them as books.

Your prospective MP’s vision for Cambridge

19 Feb 2010: While we all fear for the future of local journalism, Cambridge blogger Richard Taylor has once again shown that nowadays, independent commentators can – and do – provide a better job of covering local politics than the traditional press. His exemplary coverage (see links below) of the recent Vision for Cambridge in 2020 gathering of parliamentary candidates for Cambridge stretches to over 5,000 words, and includes video and his own angle on the debate, which is as impressive as any of the candidates. Meanwhile, all I’ve been able to find from the local newspaper is a single small report which makes the event seem barely more important than the Sudoku. The next MP’s views on the development of Cambridge is [...]

Woo. Just had 50Mb/sec internet installed

18 Feb 2010: OK, bit the bullet and had my Virgin Media cable internet connection upgraded to 50Mb/sec. Quite painless, smart guy did the installation. That’s the result above. The only problem is that my Devolo dLan 200AV, which I’d used to connect the internet around the house, turns out to max out at around 20Mb/sec, which was OK for the old connection, but not now. I’ll have to do some homework on that one, but in the meantime, I’ve had to go wireless (that’s a wireless result on the iMac above). No problem for the main PCs, which are Macs, but the old Windows box is going to need a wireless adapter. Fortunately the guy from Virgin was able to supply one [...]