Category Archives: News

What Quake

Earthquake, what earthquake ? The people at university, work and even my old grandma felt this quake. Now, I’m not saying their all telling the truth but I felt no earthquake and I live in a Barrett’s home.
Anyway I’ve got an insurance form to fill in.
-Kyle

MP3s on Play

Well this was a surprise on a Saturday morning, Play.com, have started to sell MP3s will the world ever be the same again…
Good prices too, but I’m still hanging on for Amazon before I get excited, I wonder what record companies they have signed up?
Oh and one more thing, its cheaper than iTunes !
-Kyle

Want a FREE PC?

If you are over 50 and living in London then you are eligible to receive a free computer as part of the ‘Computers For Older People Project’. The London Mayor Ken Livingstone and not for profit computer recycling company Maxitech have joined forces with Age Concern London in an initiative that aims to open […]

Sarcophilus harrisii

It seems the Tasmanian Devils could soon be facing extinction. According to Science Daily the species has a unique transmissible and rapidly spreading cancer.
Research has revealed that the cancer is transmitted from one devil to another when tumour cells are transplanted through fighting, biting, and other physical contact. Once afflicted with the cancer, aggressive […]

BBC admits Lotto button is a fake

Things go from bad to worse for the BBC;
The BBC became embroiled in another row over deception yesterday after it emerged that the button used to set off the Lotto balls is not real.
Viewers watching the draw on BBC1 on Wednesday saw the singer Craig David hesitate as he went to press the red button […]

SatNav causing bother

Here we have an article from the BBC website, about a small village ‘Llangadog’  in Wales that has seen a sudden increase in heavy traffic through its small streets. “It’s a very small narrow road and these large lorries are coming through the village and causing problems for everyone” said  Roger Morgan from Carmarthenshire Council.
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On Fraud Alert

Another day of nothing here on Wing On Some Wheels, the amount of academic work I’ve been doing would make any good mother proud of their son.
Anyway if you want something interesting to read …..
… about Deja Vu
Head over to Squeeze box or even Curly’s blog (for the comments) to hear more information on the […]

Oh yeah I remember

I forgot all about this after been told by Michael a few weeks ago in the County. It wasn’t until I was reading Risk, I came upon the story ;
“Thousands at risk after data loss” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/moneybox/7076106.stm
The Revenue refused to say “on security grounds” whether the information was encrypted. BTW, does anybody have a plausible idea […]

Now at the Hacienda

 

R.I.P Tony Wilson for you I will watch ‘24 hour Party People’ over the weekend.
- Kyle
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Lucan is Alive and Well

Stuff like this never surprises me;
A Briton living in New Zealand in an old car, with a pet possum, has denied he is missing aristocrat Lord Lucan.
Neighbours became convinced homeless Roger Woodgate was the vanished peer because of his “upper-class” English accent and “military bearing”.
This has to be a hoax, for one thing I […]

Leave the Tube Alone

I’m sorry but shutting down websites like youtube because pupils are being bullied is ridiculous.
“Calls for social networking sites like Youtube to be closed because of cyberbullying are as intelligent as calls for schools to be closed because of bullying.

Be logical teachers shutting down Youtube isn’t going to happen, more creative thinking I believe is needed if […]

Where is Jim Gray ?

It seems that Wired has published a large story on the search for Jim Gray. If you don’t know Gray is Microsoft Research staffer, who is one of the world’s great computer scientists that won the Turing Award in 1998 for his contributions to transaction processing and databases
He set sail from San Francisco on Sunday January 28 2007 in his red 40-foot fibreglass […]