Neighbourhood reduces burglaries – The Bourne Local
Neighbourhood reduces burglaries – The Bourne Local: “A SCHEME to cut down on crime in an area of Bourne has been a success and now other streets are being urged to do the same.
Following a series of burglaries during the winter months in Stephenson Way, Bourne, police community support officer Graeme Parrott encouraged residents to [...]
How not to use Twitter: How HabitatUK made a hash of it
How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study:
Habitat fetched up on Twitter a few days ago and promptly made a complete hash of the effort. In a mind boggling Twitter Fail they used trending topic hashtags to draw attention to their tweets. Hashtags that had nothing to do with furniture,decorating or indeed shopping [...]
How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker
How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker:
“Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He’s in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. ‘Still in 10k split,’ he said. [...]
China recruits volunteer net porn police
China recruits volunteer net porn police • The Register “The Chinese government plans to recruit tens of thousands of volunteers by the end of the year to report ‘lewd’ content and ‘uncivilized’ behavior on the internet.
Government-run news agency Xinhua reports volunteers will be registered under the auspices of China’s Capital Civic Enhancement Committee Office (CCECO). [...]
Antique Windmills Go About Their Daily Snuff Grind
“Most windmills today are used to generate electricity or pump water. But along the shores of a man-made lake in Rotterdam, two giants of antiquated machinery remain conscripted to their original purpose: pulverizing the fruits of the land for human consumption.”
Despite, or possibly because of, continued public health campaigns against smoking, the demand for snuff [...]
Cyber criminals could sell your PC without your knowledge.
Your home or business PC could be being used and reused by multiple criminal elements behind your back, security specialists have warned.
Cyber criminals are trading the digital assets of PC’s without the users knowledge, according to security supplier Finjan.
A trading platform known as ‘The Golden Cash Network’ is where buyers and sellers exchange information on [...]
Report describes Spalding Council as excellent
Report describes Spalding council as excellent – Spalding Today:
“A NEW report has described South Holland District Council as an ‘excellent’ authority.
A Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA) compiled by government watchdog the Audit Commission put the council in the top 25 per cent in the country, an improvement on the ‘fair’ score it received in its last [...]
o2 say they will disconnect any “free tethering” iPhone users
O2 has responded to reports that users have been bypassing the forthcoming iPhone tethering charges by stating it will disconnect or charge offenders.
It’s not difficult to find information on how to enable tethering without going for the overly pricey bolt on offered by o2. Plenty of iPhone owners have already done so over the last [...]
Read moreSpeed up your PC. What to do when your computer slows down
We’ve all experienced this. Your computer just doesn’t seem to be as fast it used to be.
It responds very slowly to every action and it may take forever to open a program. Your internet has become extremely slow.
You may also get frequent system freezes and crashes and your PC becomes so slow it’s almost impossible [...]
Geek bites the head off a live chicken
I’m indebted to Stephen Fry for bringing this to my attention last night, during a recording of his TV show Qi.
We all know a geek is a slang term for someone overly obsessed with technology. An individual who is peculiar or odd, possibly a bit of a loner.
Well the term geek predates computers and mobile [...]