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Full story: Postal strike nonsense
From reading media reports over the past few days about the forthcoming national strike of postal workers called by the CWU trade union, planned for October 22 and 23, it’s hard to understand the logic of such a move. Some reports say the strike will cost the country billions. Other reports talk about the Royal […]
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Full story: ZenNews aggregates the news on your iPhone
Reading Robin Wauters’ review in TechCrunch yesterday of three nifty iPhone news apps, one especially caught my attention (Robin said it was ‘awesome’): ZenNews from UK company Zensify. I’m trying it out. ZenNews is a free app that aggregates news from a variety of sources, presenting you with tag clouds like these examples from BBC […]
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Full story: The mother of all broadband?
Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance). The first thing you do when doing anything to your net connection is to try and find out how fast it is. […]











