Category: Travel

  • FIR Cut: Travel and Twitter

    Overflow from FIR #580 on January 3, 2010. SocialTimes: Airlines & Politicians: Wintry Weather Creates A New Use For Social Media Twitter mashup: #uksnow Map The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation: @eurocontrol Download this podcast (MP3, 4.16Mb;…

  • Chaos theory

    All this weekend, I’ve been experiencing an increasing sense of disbelief when watching TV news reports of the utter chaos in the UK transportation network as a consequence of the severe weather conditions the country has been enduring. Last night,…

  • UK snow woes

    The hot news in the UK at the moment is about the cold weather. Much of the country – notably Scotland and northeast England – has been gripped in bitter cold and blankets of snow for much of the past…

  • Navigating sat navs, settled for a Navman

    One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat…

  • It it weren’t a serious matter, it would be a farce

    Winter certainly did arrive in many parts of the UK overnight on Thursday with thick snow blanketing much of the eastern and southern parts of England. Friday December the 18th was a day of complete chaos on the roads, on…