Buses back on George Street

It seems as though there is at last going to be some buses usingGeorge Street again, through the reversal of the Central EdinburghTraffic Management Scheme (CETM. See Lothian Buses web site.

Sourceforge Updated

Sourceforge has a newly updated interface. It looks a lot cleaner and easier to user. At the moment it seems a little slow at times. http://sourceforge.net/ Letterdoc project

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Police Force Bans Smoke in Grounds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4426374.stm It’s great to see someone doing the right thing. Hopefully the same will be done else where.

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Dictionary Definition for any word

I’ve finally found out how to get the dictionary definition for any word on the page. You use the keyboard short cut control+cmd+D. Thanks to this page http://www.macosxhints.com/pollbooth.php

Google Base

There seem to be a number of places going on about Google’s Base webapp that is meant to be available at http://base.google.com/. I only seem to get as far as the login, then another screen asking to confirm password. I don’t know what is going on. Mind you it is probably still in Beta, just… Continue reading Google Base

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AppleInsider: Fifth-gen iPod photo

Take a look at http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1317 , you will notice that it is a FireWire cable in the picture, rather than a USB cable. That is very strange, considering Apple has stopped bundling the FireWire dock connector cable with the iPod for some time now!

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