winterbadger: (hex map)
I've been building a map in GoogleMaps, and I had it set to most of Scotland. I idly flipped on "traffic" and saw that bits of the Central Belt lit up, mostly green (it's the middle of the day, so that makes sense) but nowhere else much. I can see that making sense; there's probably less traffic in other parts of the country but also less infrastructure for reporting traffic.

Then I scrolled the scale out to show all of the UK. The image is kind of striking. There's traffic data that run right the way from Penzance to Newcastle, but it stops dead at the borders of England. Funny.

Then I scrolled out further to see all of western Europe. *No* data anywhere, except for France. So this is clearly an artifact of information-sharing agreements (I'm sure Germany has both traffic and the ability to monitor it).
winterbadger: (books)
Sitting here doing settlement on my mum's house long distance with a PC and a scanner...

In the meantime I've been browsing (shallowly) the iTunes store for things to put on my iPod touch.

And found a *free* app that contains all the works of William Shakespeare. Plays. Poems. Sonnets. Everything. In a flash, sent over the tubes and condensers of Teh Intrawebz to this little thing that fits in my pocket.

Young people, please remember in your amusement at my astonishment that I had been out of college and in the job market for at least ten years before anyone (outside DARPA) had email or websites. I used to play Star Trek text-based games on the computer when I was a teenager, but only because my brother in law at the time had access to the Yale University mainframes.

I feel very, very old. And I'm only 45.
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What can my helpful and well informed friendslist tell me about Skype beyond what's on Wikipedia? Have any of you used it? Is it difficult to set up? How well does it work?

Enquiring badgers want to know (more)...

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