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Can't believe it, back in 1997 Winamp was THE media player, mp3 files were just becoming popular… I remember running winamp on the first laptop I ever bought, a hulking big AJP 6200, running win95. Winamp on a portable device is what I longed for in 1997 – imagine winamp on a Psion Series5! IContinue reading “Winamp on Android – it’s like being back in 1997!”

POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo  /  Tue, September 21, 2010 The Russian policeman waved at the orange van zigzagging around the empty plaza, ordering it to stop. The van didn’t, so the officer stepped closer to address the driver. But there was no driver. The van is an autonomous vehicle developed at the University of Parma’sContinue reading “IEEE Spectrum: Autonomous Vehicle Driving from Italy to China”

Sign on the grass by the side of the Olympic Stadium, Beijing.

Getting all nostalgic, a brace of 1HAK10720AAA & 1HAK10729AAU for you…

That's just the view for the last few miles though… the first 180-ish miles of M6/M5 don't look so good!

I've now eaten my own body-weight in "cheese". I say "cheese" because this is American cheese, so therefore not proper cheese, like English or French cheese. It even says on the packet that it doesn't contain any rBST (a growth hormone they force-feed the dairy cattle) which is nice. Just realised the white tubs ofContinue reading “I am an international roving cheese-spread reporter….”

Notice also the IBM PS/2 keyboard and Peugeot 205 GTi keys… signs o' the times! And also, the non-standard "rubber-duck" antenna on the 2140, 1800MHz PCN coverage back in the day always seemed a bit sparse 🙂

Love the fluffy little clouds…

Been experimenting with some GPS tracking and converting the logs/tracks into useful maps… Dublin to Liverpool flight track Let’s see if it works… had a few issues with the google maps API key, but I think that’s fixed now.

"Ice Ice Baby"….