Fly over London at night and you realise just how big the city is. Lit
by the sodium streetlights, it is almost all orange except for the
very centre of the city, where the lights from highrise offices turn
the town white and the buildings themselves hide the roadside lamps. How much power do we consume to light our towns? From the air, it
looks like a lot (particularly in the office blocks), but it's
undeniably striking as you head to Heathrow Airport.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Konnie Huq joins Indian campaign to end polio
This crippling disease is now endemic in just four countries - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
via news.bbc.co.uk
I haven't the faintest idea who Konnie Huq is, but I like the idea of trying to eliminate Polio. With any luck, it'll go the way of the dodo and smallpox in a couple of years. If we can persuade the anti-vaccination idiots to quieten down, maybe we can get rid of measles as well (I'm not holding my breath).
Thursday, November 19, 2009
iPhone Feature Request - Auto-save of Draft Emails
The stability of the iPhone mail client has improved hugely over the last year (v2.0 was truly awful) and crashes are now fairly rare, but they aren't unknown and it would be nice if draft emails were occasionally saved as a precaution against disaster. They aren't, and frustration results.
iPhone Feature Request - Timezone Support
It's just a little thing, but when I change timezones it would be nice if the phone adjusted the times of my appointments so that reminders popped up at the right time instead of an hour early. My appointments sync from Exchange and should be associated with a particular timezone, so the phone ought to be able to cope with timezone changes, shouldn't it?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
IPhone Feature Request - Dictionary Editing
There might be an App for this (see previous post to understand why I haven't been able to check for one) but I really want to be able to edit the dictionary in my iPhone, both to add new words and to remove or correct existing entries. Most of the time the iPhone's text correction features work really well, but sometimes there are problems. Let me give you an example: "Market". My phone capitalises the first letter of this word whenever I use it (which is often) and it's somewhat annoying. I don't know why this is, but I suspect a rogue dictionary entry. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know. Ta.
iPhone App Store Browsing
I can't believe they haven't fixed this yet. If I'm browsing the App Store on the train and I lose data connection (as happens regularly, but that's a different story) I don't want to be shown this screen! No other applications do this. Imagine trying to write emails or read a cached website, only to have this sort of thing interrupt you every time you pass a large hill or disappear into a railway cutting. Annoying, yes? Well it's a bit bloody annoying when the App Store does it. Come on Apple, get it sorted!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Cardiff Bay from the St David's Hotel
This is the view from the balcony of our room on the seventh floor, taken during an unusual break in the weather. Mermaid Quay is in the foreground with other stuff behind.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Sharks. Big sharks. Stay out of the water, sort of thing
The BBC have a load of video on their website (like this one, for sharks: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Great_white_shark#p0036vd6) from various nature programs. The Crocodiles are worth hunting out as well.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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