Category: Link
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Tracking a mobile phone
Do you want to know how/if police and phone networks can track mobile phones? The BBC wrote a bit about its use in catching a London train bomber. Link.
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Phil’s Biog
Haha – I just found Phil’s biog: www.medicine.swan.ac.uk/bio-philip.maull.html. Planet of the Apes or what?
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University of Wales Swansea Biog
I finally got around to this. Hmmm. It’s a bit dull. www.medicine.swan.ac.uk/bio-s.v.webster.html
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Open Source Beer
Students from the Information Technology University in Copenhagen have created Our Beer, version 1.0. No, it’s not software, it really is beer. It was created as an example of intellectual property management concerns, hinting that the open source concept (that the “recipe” is made publicly available for anyone to use or alter as long as…
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Modern Mapping – for free
There are a couple of free mapping services under development and available for use, which, if you haven’t heard about them, you should take a look at. Now these aren’t your typical maps. This is a new style of doing things, and the maps are of the whole world. So, if you want to improve…
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The Picture Editors’ Awards
Go and see some of this year’s greatest photographic images at The Picture Editor’s Awards. Link.
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Vitamin C won’t prevent colds
A review of 55 studies suggests vitamin C supplements don’t lower the risks of getting a cold. Link.
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Wiki it
For those of you that don’t know, there’s a great resource for clearly explained information on the web, called Wikipedia. It’s a free internet-based encyclopaedia. The really novel thing about it though, is that entries can be created and modified by anyone. To quote, “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by many of its readers.…
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Rosie Around The World
In October 2003 Rosie left Wales to run around the world, covering as much by land as possible with no support or backup team (nuts). She’s running across Northern Russia at the moment. She’s doing it because she can (impressive) and is raising money for The Kitezh Community for Orphan Children, The Prostate Cancer Charity…