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ISOC event Geneva

Rex — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:59:56 +0000

I’m in Geneva for 4 days, attending an ISOC event called GlobalINET. An Internet conference.

Workshops are taking place on Saturday and Sunday and Internet Society chapters from all over the world have send delegates (I’m representing ISOC England) to share knowledge. It’s the most collaborative conference I’ve ever been to – just sitting and listening isn’t an option!

Chapter dinner at a Swiss restaurant

The cheese fondue was not universally popular. Most of my table were aghast at the idea of eating hot cheese and left in search of more traditional fare.

New electric hybrid bus

Rex — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:26:37 +0000

This new No.19 has an electric diesel engine and is known as a Hybrid. The diesel engine cuts out at bus stops and traffic lights and it pulls away on its electric motor. The diesel kicks in seamlessly after a few seconds.
Should mean less pollution on our streets.

A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker (Front)

The rattle of the diesel dying at bus stops still feels as though the passengers are all about to ordered off the broken down bus.

A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker (back)

Day out

Rex — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:00 +0000

A day out in taunton, on a gorgeous Spring day at Hestercombe Gardens.

Reed Rage fitzhead 2012

Rex — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:30:19 +0000

Fantastic playing from Reed Rage in Fitzhead on Saturday.

House Bites

Rex — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:55:02 +0000

A friend has joined www.housebites.com. It’s where you order takeway food from home cooks. People cook food for you in their home kitchens. Housebites provide the online menu, taking the order and the money, and the delivery. It’s all very ‘social’ so you get feedback, ratings, twitter and so on. Cuban anyone?

Wimbledon book club

Rex — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:19:43 +0000

At Wimbledon Station. Unfortunately locked at 10pm on a Friday night

Steam Train news

Rex — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:54 +0000

As part of our regular feature on new steam trains, I’m happy to announce that the second new oil-fired steam locomotive meant for the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) rolled out from the Golden Rock Railway Workshop on Monday.

‘X' class metre gauge steam loco

You can read more at TheHindu.com.

Cold start

Rex — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:19:22 +0000

Thats the time and temperature in our bedroom. Bit of a cold start this morning! No heating in my place – not normally needed, but this is the chilliest its been for a long time.

Yeeeeeeeee Sang!

Rex — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:10:09 +0000

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Software I can’t do without

Rex — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:14:05 +0000

Over the years my computer toolbar has established a small number of programs that I use all the time. I would like to use free* software every time, but there are some tools I use for work that I just can’t replicate with a free alternative. Some of the versions I use are ancient by today’s standards but do the job for me.

My most used software 2012

Free*	Commercial
Thunderbird	SecureCRT (SSH client)
Firefox	WSPing ProPack
WinSCP	Navicat (MySQL management)
OpenOffice	MS RemoteDesktop
Dropbox	TextPad
Pidgin (instant messenger)	Fireworks

*Free has two meanings in the world of computer software

Free (as in beer) – this means at no cost. You get the software for nothing.
Free (as in speech) – this means not closed, proprietary. You could take a aprt the software and rewrite it if you wanted to, and this is explicitly allowed.

Why not let me know what software you can’t live without, by filling in the comment box below.