This is what happens when a BT engineer pulls the wrong cord…
btw, the widget is called Watchmouse (duh!). The best part about it is that if there is a failure, it automatically takes you to a page where the response times from a bunch of servers around the world are listed. Just to make sure it isn’t just your computer/connection that is duff…
The new version of Digg is out in all it’s grey lined glory. Digg has expanded its news coverage to include world news, politics and other non-techie resources. It will be very interesting to see how the mainstream media cope and how their stories reflect the digg pages…
This is a very good example of a good idea being used as a little cheap viral marketing. The Tate has a small subsection on their site which allows you to make your very own collection of works, write the captions and print them as a pdf.
Now this could be a pretty neat and forward thinking idea, especially in the whole web2.0 sceme of things. To allow the visitors to the site to explore the vast collection of the Tate, create their own selection of works and display them online; “come and see the Ed Wilde collection” they’ll say…heck, if a collection is getting so much traffic, it could even be shown physically. I can see comments, tags, groups and all sorts of wannabe curators presenting themselves…not to mention the vast scope for comedy collections with humorous captions.
But no…this is just a pretty form which allows you to create a custom pdf file with a choice of about 50 images and some text…opportunity missed? or perfect viral for the website?
This is an unbelievably slick way of managing documents on a desktop. It is a 3d, physics-based box (if you will) which you can throw your documents about in. It would be fantastic to see something like this modelled into a current operating system (preferably osx), or even just some of the features, such as stacking files and fanning them out like cards.
Could Bumptop be the future of touchscreen computers…?
After a long period only using the work connection, a local unsecured network and a slooow-ass dialup connection, I am back online!
Kudos to Be, who are providing a connection about ten times as fast as my old pipex one, for a slightly cheaper price. I am still a little amazed at how fast this connection actually is, I can pickup a 150mb episode of something in about 8 minutes…certainly beats the days when I used be happy when the speed reached 3.1kb/s (effectively maxing out a 28.8bps connection).
The Be ordering process was kinda fun too, they have an online checklist which counts down the steps until you are connected. I think you will agree it is much nicer to check a website everyday and see a little progress than to just wait with no information. Also if I can refer 24 people to Be, I get free broadband for life…or until I move.
Moving house is so much fun (hah!), unfortunately it does take it’s toll.
As one would expect gas, electricity and water can be switched from one address to another easily, even BT can get a phoneline to a new address in a few hours (to my surprise) unfortunately it still takes two weeks to get broadband…
One simple question, why cant adsl be enabled on all lines and disabled on the ones that specifically don’t like it? (such as Redcare lines). Surely that would be easier than doing whatever it is that takes two weeks to get one line enabled…
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I am on dialup for a couple of weeks…bleugh!
A gallery of somewhat really(!) freaky adverts for 50’s cuisine…they must have spent hours removing the horns and red eyes from the original drawings, obviously made by one of lucifer’s oily henchmen.
They are pretty eye-catching though…