Posts Tagged ‘Cyber Spaces’

Nov
01/09
Cyber YHA
Last Updated on Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:03
Written by Dominic Reid
Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Not the YMCA, I never really understood what (more…)

May
25/09
May in a brightly crisp Blighty
Last Updated on Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:04
Written by Dominic Reid
Monday, May 25th, 2009

There’s one thing I noticed about Cornwall is that the light is brighter. I thought it was my imagination until I was enlightened by a wonderful German fella called Chris who happens to be a photographer.  He said it’s because Cornwall is surrounded by sea, the water reflects light back at all angles (more…)

May
21/08
Terminal 5
Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:47
Written by Dominic Reid
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I went to Heathrow recently as my ex was getting back from seeing her family in Peru.  I decided to stop off at Terminal 5 to see what all of the fuss was about and was amazed. The building is lovely. It is a cathedral that pays homage to travel, huge halls, grand scale and sheers walls all looking like they pivot on giant metal bearings.

Terminal 5 Heathrow

I sat at the runway end of the terminal, in a cafe and watched one of the new Airbus 380′s take off and could only sit in wonder. For those who want to do nothing but complain about some of the wonderous things we humans make, shut the fcuk up.

Toughen the Fuck Up

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Aug
31/06
Norwich Gets Free WiFi
Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:15
Written by Dominic Reid
Thursday, August 31st, 2006

The city of Norwich has become Britain’s largest open network. You can login within a 4km radius of county hall, which has a a “pre WiMax” 5.8GHz connection sitting on top. Gosh.

So, is Norwich a hotbed of Gypsy activity, with little tinkers tappety tapping away in the rural east of Britain?

Aug
20/06
Google’s neighbourhood, one big WiFi network!
Last Updated on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 11:05
Written by Dominic Reid
Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Last week Google offered to make it’s entire hometown one big WiFi network

Mountain View, California, will then be the biggest community in the US with free WiFi.

About 72,000 people live in Mountain View, an 11 square mile city 35 miles south of San Francisco.

companies like Google and VeriSign are based in Mountainview, so during the day the population can rise above 100,000