Category: Internet

  • Eurocon 2009 – More than just simulation

    You might imagine that the Eurocon is a group of 40 grown ups playing computer games and drinking beer. Well, that’s only part of what’s going on. This morning 4 of us went to the local indoor snow ski slope. At about 500m long and kept at a steady minus 7 degrees, it made a…

  • Learn french in 10 days…. assuming you don't need sleep?

    My French prof runs an email list of… well, a mixture of humour, observations and such, the sort that many people forward to your email. The good thing for me is that a lot of it is in French and try as I might, I often have to really work at reading it. If I…

  • Choosing a web browser – why can't I just put up with the default

    My first web browser was Netscape 1.1 I remember sitting in the training rooms of GEC Marconi Avionics sometime in the late 90’s, going through the self study ‘How to use the internet’ course. They were good courses, I spent many evenings learning better driving skills (spotting the hazards) and the most time consuming course…