The first thing that went through my mind, when I read this article in The Independent, was that “Dementiaville” must be just like the village (Portmeirion) which the British cult TV series “The Prisoner” was set in. The Prisoner, an involuntarily retired British secret agent, was held in a village at an unknown location . . . → Read More: Dementiaville
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Japanese Subway I think this is something I don’t really need to experience first hand!
Typical Monday agoogleaday puzzle Google is running a series of puzzles at agoogleaday.com over the next months, which can be solved if you know how to use Google to help you. If you get stuck, you can click on “Show Answer” below the puzzle, and Google explains what you needed to search for. . . . → Read More: Learn how to make better use of Google
Realtime quake map of Japan Paul Nicholls in Christchurch, New Zealand, has produced a continuously updating map showing the location and depth of the quakes which have struck Japan since the magnitude 9.0 quake on the 11th March 2011. Today (17th March), there were 34 quakes, including one measuring over 6.0 on the . . . → Read More: Map showing the quakes in Japan
Recipe Search on Google I just noticed – Google has added a recipe search item to their home page. You can filter the results by ingredients, cooking time or by calories. To get included in the results, sites need to tag their recipes using rich snippets. Rich snippets can also be . . . → Read More: Rich Snippets – Google recipe search
Microsoft: Encourage Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade Aggressive “dissing” of your own product. Microsoft has set a goal of getting the proportion of Internet Explorer 6 users reduced to 1% and is actively advising people to stop using it. Currently, around 12% of internet users, mostly in Asia, are still using . . . → Read More: Microsoft: Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6
The new look for IHArchitects.com Having just reworked the content and given a mild update to the appearance of Richard and Simon’s web site in January, we decided to ask Caroline Archer, the graphic designer who did their logo and corporate image, to give it the once-over. This time we have kept . . . → Read More: Complete make-over for IHArchitects.com Most of the time, I will be visiting our building site on my own, over the next months. Ruth is still working, earning the money to pay for the house! So I will need to call home to discuss any issues that arise. Last time I was in Spain, we tried out the DCalling Service. This seems to work. Well. I think we’ll be using it a lot in future. You register with DCalling, which will get you a small credit on your DCalling account (25 cents, if I remember correctly), to allow you to try out the service. If you like it, you can top up your account in units of 20 Euro, which will be enough to keep you going for over 17 hours if you are making international mobile phone calls to land-lines within Europe. Continue reading DCalling: cheap international mobile phone calls The construction of our house in Xàtiva started a couple of weeks ago, so we are busy thinking about all the decisions we still need to take, before the builders take them for us by default. The sanitary ware, taps and showers in the bathrooms, the interior doors and their handles, the floor and . . . → Read More: Light relief The Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab has come up with a way of marking objects with a 3mm wide bar code that a normal digital SLR camera can read at a distance of over 4 meters (a cell phone camera needs to be closer) : Comparision of the new bokode . . . → Read More: Nifty way of miniaturizing bar codes |
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