Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Access for All
[As ever, this can be read on the BBC News website]
President Sarkozy of France recently managed to get his ‘Création et Internet’ law passed by the National Assembly, and if all goes well in the Senate then French internet users will soon find their activities being supervised by HADOPI, the grandly named ‘Haute Autorité pour [...]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
The House That Tweets
One of the nice things about appearing on Digital Planet is that we get to talk to cool people doing interesting things… like this
http://bit.ly/2M0AWc
More on the topic on next week’s show.
(thanks, Michelle!)
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Touching the past
I’ve just returned home after an evening at St John’s College where we had a small supper following my talk at the Computer Lab this afternoon – it will be online soon, by the way. It was a delightful event, especially because Maurice Wilkes joined us.
And I recorded an AudioBoo on the way home..
Listen!
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
The 10 Cultures Problem
It’s fifty years since CP Snow gave his famous lecture on The Two Cultures at the Senate House in Cambridge. Tomorrow I make my contribution to the University’s 800th anniversary celebration with a lecture on ‘The 10 Cultures Problem’ at the Computer Laboratory.
And it’s featured on the University home page. No pressure then…
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
When the new becomes old
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
Sometimes on a Monday afternoon I find myself sitting a desk in a small room in a fairly nondescript office block near Cambridge railway station waiting for the network engineers at Bush House to call me up on an ISDN line so that I can [...]
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Can’t Connect… Won’t Connect
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website too]
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones must be hoping that his near neighbours don’t decide they want a larger family. He recently spent ages setting up a high-speed wireless network at home, documenting the whole tortuous process on the BBC Technology blog, but all his hard work [...]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Is Facebook Really Bad for You?
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website]
The examination period is always stressful, both for those sitting GCSEs, A levels and the International Baccalaureate and for their parents and siblings who get ‘second-hand stress’ without even a certificate to show for their efforts.
My friends and I used to revise together, hoping that it would [...]
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
A New Laureate
Good to see Carol Ann Duffy get the Laureate, and I decided to commemorate it in this small AudioBoo…
Listen!
