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Scouting & Guiding Technology

To GPL or Not To GPL

I’ve been working on a reasonably exciting project of late. Sort of an extension in the work i’ve been doing for various Scouting events using Wordpress over the years. I’ve been building a booking system. Not just any booking system, this is a purpose for the event booking system, i’m hoping to expand into a fully fledged […]

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Technology

Moving Cargo By Road Is Dead,

It’s just nobody’s told the road haulage association. Eventually the oil will run out , there is no escaping that single fact.  It’s not a renewable resource and we might as well face the fact.  But there is a transport solution for moving cargo and it’s … The railways Yep, some companies are already doing it but […]

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Technology

Orange – The Mobile Operator Without A Clue?

Sometime around the summer of 1999 I joined the then fledgling mobile operator Orange and got a Nokia 3210. The phone was great the service was nothing but exceptional. Over the years I had all sorts of combinations of pricing plans and handsets. One could say I’ve paid my dues with the company as over […]

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Lifeblog Technology

Homebrew iPod Dock

When I picked up my iPod classic the friday before gangshow the first thing I thought after unboxing it and loading it with tunage is what a fab dock the box would make. Today this widget arrived from sparkfun which means I can access every pin in the dock connector.

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Technology

Councils Turn Street Lights Off

According to the BBC Pembrokeshire is about to become the second county to turn some of it’s street lighting off in order to reduce it’s energy bill.  Apparently the lights that have a special timer photocell fitted turn on when it starts to go dark and then shut off at Midnight.  Then at 5.30 in […]