Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

It’s OK to say you don’t understand the ringtones business.
I know there are people who initially claim they do, but not one of the many people that I’ve spoken to about the ringtones business can explain its workings to me. I’m not talking about how the downloads work, but why it’s so big.
Anyone in […]

You may think lighting is less-than-fascinating, but I think you’d be wrong.
Technology is only just starting to make changes to this world. LED lighting and flat lighting panels are only just the start.
It looks like Lightfair 2005 may have be a place to start to see those changes. Sadly it’s was in New York and […]

I’ve just bought an HP/Compaq NC4000 laptop for Sally.
It’s turned out to be the sort of quality machine that I thought it might be. It’s compact, pretty light at 1.6Kg, with a 1.5GHz Intel Pentium-M processor. The 30GB hard disk and 12.1″ TFT colour display are OK, but the memory it arrived with, 256Mb […]

On BBC London TV News and radio, they’re running a news items about Happy Slaps TV, where school kids are running around slapping people around the face, while one of their friends does a video recording on their mobile phone.
These video then get swapped around in the school playground.
They’re going around in groups of three […]

Today launched of a rocket, Deep Impact, designed to crash into a meteor. NASA hope to find out what sparked the start of life on earth.
Given the strength of the christian fundamentalist in the US, their passion for the teaching of creationism and their influence in the current US government - I wonder how long […]

In their never end attempts to defraud you, Internet scamers are always coming up with a new way to grab your attention, getting you to click on a poisoned URL that will attempt to invade your machine/steal personal information from you.
One successfully caught my attention today with the subject “New email address added to your […]

This type of thing really appears to me. Tucked away in the storage of archive.org are the photos taken while Google was starting in 1999.
There are nine shots (taken on what was probably then a state-of-the-art 640×480 digital camera) of the various pieces of kit, much of it donated, that were gathered together to run […]

Spending a couple of days in a flat in Barcelonetta, the beach/port side of Barcelona and very pleasant it is too. Despite having arranged to have a flat with DSL access, I´ve had a real headache trying to get Internet access. The DSL is the really stupid USB-type, that needs the supplied software installed on […]

Huge German retailer, Metro Group, has changed its mind about introducing RFID, following a protest of only 40 people from the digital rights group Foebug, at the weekend.
Encouraging to think that only 40 people, with the right coverage can make a difference.

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I was stumbling around the Web today and came across this small PC’s and this tiny one. I have no idea what they are like at all, but man are they small.

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