Monthly Archives: February 2008

France, IT

Yes, it’s true…

“In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month!”
Why the French are ahead in broadband; will free mobile calls for ads work | Rose Cantine

Actually it’s a bit more than the 50Mbps, mine’s running at in the early sixties and every few weeks it gets faster. There is 100Mbps in the building but I can’t be bothered going through the pain of changing.

Follow the link to the previous blog and there is a lovely comment about how sharing links means that they don’t need to dig the road up three times. Note that it’s more efficient and improves people’s lives but it cuts GDP by a third!

IT, News, Technology

Google changes the game…

Google has announced that they now have a forms interface to the Google Spreadsheet application…

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

This is massive news. Google is building the next generation of office and the functionality set isn’t the same as our desktop applications.

They now have applications for collecting data, manipulating data, analyzing data. All they need is workflow applications and things will get very interesting.

IT, Technology

Arrington works from home…

…so he’d know how many emails get printed.

“I don’t print emails (no one does, you idiots)”

Hey, You Condescending Jerk, No One Prints Emails Anyway

Er, except, I work in an office and sit next to a printer. Currently, there are over twenty emails that have been printed and are sitting there waiting to be picked up. The oldest was printed six days ago!

However, the general point is correct. It’s time to get rid of that line from the footer.

Uncategorized

More on how kids learn language…

More on how kids learn language (Geek News Central)

“Current research suggests that toddlers don’t learn language one word at a time, but instead learn in chunks by storing different useages of language and cross referencing them until they confirm the context.”

My children have always spoken French and English, something that is new to my experience, therefore I’ve taken special attention watching them learn language. The above quote matches my experience, the idea that children learn linearly one word at a time is nonsense.

OLPC

Be careful what you name your OLPC…

First issue that I had was getting online.

Why?

Because I’d given the OLPC and the Wi-Fi router the same name! Changed the name of the router (couldn’t work out how to change the OLPC name) and it worked in seconds.