Posts Tagged ‘internet’
Labour: what is it for, what does it stand for
| Politics | May 3, 2008
12 views At a recent meeting we discussed this, in fact the topic brought a few people along that had not been active for a while, just as this topic has brought me back to my blog.
This incredible loss, both in London and across the country is an opportunity for renwal, not for more of the same. Its certainly what the conservatives have done.
Gordon Brown has made an excellent chancellor but he i...
5 truths about the internet
| Featured Articles, IT & Net, News | March 14, 2008
43 views In Kurt Vonneguts Cats Cradle, I am sure it begins with something like…everything I am about to tell you is a lie.
So they say the shops are taking a hammering because of the internet, well maybe like overpriced CDs that were hammered by iTunes its about time the high street woke up and realised people won;’t continue to pay over the odds for things.
So here are my 5 and 5
Neg...
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Freecycle vs Ebay
| IT & Net | October 11, 2007
12 views When I was a kid we “passed things on” and received things that others “passed on”; no money changed hands and we did not think any the less of ourselves or others because of it. Bikes, clothes, ornaments all went this way, and at the most we might give some things to be sold by the Scout or Church “jumble sale”.
The modern attitude is sell it, ebay (www.amazon.com) have mad...
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9 views Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names (like www.jonathanspencer.net) into IP addresses.
Domain names are alphabetic, thus they’re easier to remember.
The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address...
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If its on the internet it must be true
| IT & Net | August 19, 2007
9 views Wikipedia and so i guess other big wiki projects are up for grabs as anyone can edit them. Then this guy invented some software to scan wikipedia to read the IP address of people editing a page and cross reference this to an IP cmpany address list and biy were the results interesting.
We think what we read on the net is true when we are looking for info well check this out:
An article tha...
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Hello and welcome to the site. These are just my musing over a period of a few years as I turn on and off the internet. I have as Groucho Marx once said "worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty". My background has come via computing to theatre - both creative and technical, University, Politics, Business, Counselling/Therapy and back round to computers. I now run with my partner a healthcare business, I also offer IT consultancy and offer motivational guidance. Please leave your comments or get in touch I would like to hear from you.
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