Category: Travel
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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;…
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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,…
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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…
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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…