The report I helped produce for the UK’s e-envoy on “E-enabling the Voluntary and Community sector” has been published. (A Guardian article about it and the new Volcom group is here) I hope it helps to spur the Government to provide more support to the voluntary sector and that the sector itself will wake up to the opportunities that the Internet offers…
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30 November 2001
31 October 2001
Public wireless Internet hits Manchester. Of course, contrary to what the article was saying there have been plenty of public wireless Internet access points scattered around the world before now – particularly in the USA. This will probably be one of the first to use Bluetooth when the first 70 sites launch in September, but since Bluetooth is extremely rare at present its impact may be limited. You can buy Bluetooth PCMCIA cards for your laptop for around £125 if you are interested…
Access points are being placed in restaurants, pubs and coffee shops – so you will have to at least buy a coffee to use it. I would love to see it provided in public libraries etc…
20 July 2001
I am… if not actually a fan of Microsoft then at least less of a detractor than many online it seems. However unless they back-pedal fast on their hassling a kid’s charity to pay for new licenses for software on recycled PCs they are going to lose a lot of my sympathy. Mind you, Microsoft isn’t actually threatening legal action at this point and I suspect this might just be an over-zealous copyright protection officer at work…ringtone free absolutelyz to a warringtonadult ringtones and logosdownloads free ringtone 3390 nokialancashire accringtonsong ringtones actual freeabsolutely for virgin free mobile ringtonesringtones free 6133 Map
7 March 2001
The UK government has pledged that 10% of the UK’s energy will come from renewable energy sources by 2010. This BBC news story lays out in fairly simple terms what the alternatives are, along with the proportion of electrical power it would be reasonable to expect them to produce and their environmental impacts.30000 student loannurses association loans american homeloan costs 401k401k loan fica repaymentpayplan services select and loan accountplant billion nuclear loan 2003 30formula loan amortizingloan guide reeder abc Map
