Category: Experiences

  • The best rate to the UK isn’t Vodafone

    When I arrived at San Francisco International airport on Saturday after a 10-hour flight from London, I switched on my Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone. This is my primary phone, on an account with Vodafone UK. I had a few…

  • Vote and show you have influence

    Some of my friends in the UK didn’t vote today in the European Parliament elections. Quite a few of them say they are so disillusioned with politics, why bother. Others say they have no interest in what’s going on in…

  • What has Vista SP2 done or undone?

    The other day, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) was installed on my Dell XPS 420 desktop PC via Windows Update. Ever since, I’ve experienced a number of weird things. No matter which way I look at them, I can’t…

  • Audio sharing and growing pains

    The Guardian had a good story yesterday about Audioboo, the audio-sharing service (and social network) that I started using in March. Audioboo is primarily an iPhone app where you record up to five minutes of audio that the app uploads…

  • New Google Chrome is really fast

    A new version 2.0.172.28 of Google Chrome was released yesterday with Google claiming the web browser is up to 30% faster than previous versions and with some new features included. I’d agree with the claim that it’s faster. In my…