#“Any Irish Incubators Signed-Up with Rackspace Startup Programme @scobleizer e.g. @ndrc_i2i ?”
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#“Our replacement for Sky TV cost \u008099. Ariva 120. No monthly fees!”
So the kids complained about the removal of Sky. A lot. There are only so many Charlie and Lola episodes you can watch on YouTube, particularly the ones in Finnish. The intention was to get that very highly recommended Humax Freesat box on Amazon but it's bloody pricey and we weren't sure we needed all of the features. Then the very kind @gpelly on Twitter mentioned the hugely impressive Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo. »
#“VS Day - Victory Over Sky Day. Free at last etc etc yadda yadda”
After our ongoing argument over the telephone connection with Sky TV, they doubled the multi-room charge, so we cancelled the lot in early August.Today the cancellation finally kicked in.The kids are in shock. We had planned to get a Freesat box but we're actually going to play it by ear and get nothing for a while. Let's see how they survive on the few stations they can get in "Other Channels" on the Sky box, along with BBC iPlayer, Hulu and YouTube. »
#“Kindle for Kids Must Be Coming Soon”
Sibal, our 7 y/o, just read a sample chapter of Judy Moody on my Kindle. Some of the words were beyond her and we made good use of the dictionary feature which is pretty decent.
But it struck me that a "Kid Mode" would be 100x more useful. It would give a child-friendly pop-up explanation plus optional audio pronounciation. Basically what the VTech Storio does but at Amazon scale. »
#“Can @vodafoneireland Explain The Differences Between These Three 1GB Add-Ons?”
Or do we just have complete UI failure? And as for the "You've used 2GB of the 2GB on your 1Gb Plan", eh, no I haven't, I've used 250MB.There is also a big difference between GB and Gb. 8x in fact. »
#“20 Years of WWW - I think I started in 1995 with RTEMS”
Today is the 20th anniversary of the web. Pretty incredible 20 years really. My own history of the internet was finding Usenet in 1990 when I started my Masters in UCD, followed by email, FTP.FUNET.FI, Gopher, WAIS and the joy of downloadable shareware. There was then a pause from 92-94 as I worked on GSM basestation software in S3 and only had email. »
#“IntoNow Looks Great - Pity it’s by Yahoo”
via androidguys.com Very cool. Like Shazam for TV shows. How long do we give this one? 12 months before they cancel it? The Bungee VP has probably been moved to something else already. Bungee VP: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b2B0IbbDUKnuyNgHCrvSVQM8BGZCru3fr1BX8W3...
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#“The Festo Flying Mechanical Bird at TED. Jaw Dropping.”
This is one of the most amazing things I think I've ever seen. These guys are based in Esslingen, outside Stuttgart, where I worked for the summer of 1988 in the kitchen of an old folk's home. The company description reminded me of one that my college buddy Oisín worked in over the same summer. It turns out that Festo bought that company! »