New ways to plug in are helping people get broadband The number of Britons with high-speed net access is continuing to grow. According to the Office of National Statistics 17% of net-using households have a broadband connection. Numbers look set to continue growing as firms start offering new ways to get a fast link to…
About 18,000 Vaio laptops are being recalled by electronics giant Sony because of the risk of an electric shock to users. The problem is with faulty modems, which means that people could receive a shock when making a phone call and using the Vaio at the same time. Related Links: BBC news article
“Many historians died to get this information on the web. Use this knowledge with great care”, states this webpage. Related Links: The Partially True History of the Doughnut
I've now added a story digest feature to ROSTRA so that users can receive emails containing the headline and summary of most recent stories posted to any given ROSTRA. The list of subscribers is not handled by ROSTRA itself – you simply provide the email address of a list service. This way, subscribers have independant…
Very witty article at scotsman.com (found whilst looking for information on the Dynamic Earth exhibition in Edinburgh). Related Links: Lazy Guide to Net Culture
After a wait of months for sufficient stories to build up, the KMi News Digest has finally been sent. The most recent story, of Enrico's Professorship, posted late yesterday, tipped the scale and the scheduled script triggered, sending the summaries of seven stories to a list of well over a hundred subscribers. This is the…
KMi Director Enrico Motta was today appointed as Professor of Knowledge Technologies. Photo shows Enrico with Professors Marc Eisenstadt and Bob Spicer (Earth Sciences), both members of the selection committee. Related Links: Enrico Motta
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press conferences, has resurfaced in Baghdad. An Iraqi Kurdish official told a London-based Arabic newspaper that Mr Sahhaf was staying at his aunt's house in Baghdad, and was under surveillance by US forces. Captured then released by…
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press conferences, has resurfaced in Baghdad. An Iraqi Kurdish official told a London-based Arabic newspaper that Mr Sahhaf was staying at his aunt's house in Baghdad, and was under surveillance by US forces. Captured then released by…
I've now added the ability to make comments on postings. The comments are unthreaded but do record who posted them and when.
