The Nokia 3220 enables you to scan messages into air. Really cool Smart Mobs: Wave Messaging

A very good site with loads of links for european cross country travel The Man in Seat Sixty-One...

Interesting idea for using some of that time I might have soon if the retirement deal goes through. Exploring Volunteering

The Way We Eat Now: "'The best single behavioral predictor of obesity in children and adults is the amount of television viewing,' says the School of Public Health's Gortmaker." and thats mainly through the advertising. Very interesting article especially this Morgan "Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald's for a month.......The doctors were like, 'You have to stop.'" In one month on the fast-food regime, he gained 25 pounds."

This is a great idea . Photograph yourself and your family on the same day, in this case June 17th, every year and see the changes . So simple a concept but so beautifully done.Time

Blimey this guy Meegan did do a LONG walk 19,000 miles to be precise story here is book is here

Interesting alternative 'whats on' in Cambridge UK here

Estonia the coolest country on the planet. A great idea using the @ symol marking internet access. Wonder how many years before the UK parliment even attempts at catch up. Imagine blogging white papers with comments! MOFA : Estonia

Interesting statement here that we in UK are spending more on mobiles than on gas and electric. Users spending more on mobile bill than electric or gas - silicon.com Reckon that is true in my case

And if only this was true Denounce Newswire: BitTorrent To Release Michael Moore's New Film Free of Charge Since Disney and Miramax have refused to release Moores new film because its to controversial. moore is going to release it for free using BitTorrent. Yep. Pity its a satire site.

An excellent article here Darknet: Chapter 6: Cool Toys Hollywood Wants to Ban on why yourSony products won't allow you to copy your own movies. Love the technology where you can edit Hollywood DVD's - no wonder these lads are worried when you add yourown face to a Hollywood blockbuster.

A baynesian spam filter for outlook SpamBayes: Windows platform

In answer to this article An amazing reply from the inventor of Minux and who is now defending Linus Torvalds (even though they did have a heated debate in the past. Pretty obvious is that the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and its Ken Brown is a pretty creapy outfit. And where do they get their funding? Thanks to ablog for the link.

Just found this source apparently confirms "A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution."

And another article condemming the book here

Pleased to see someone with the same idea as I had. Offering ripping services for people who want to mp3 their music.
LoadPod: let us load your music into your iPod for you! Only difference is that they have done it and I'm still thinking about it!

Pretty amazing stuff here ADD, ADHD & Dyslexia Treatments For Adults & Children at DORE Achievement Centers All about exercising the right parts of the brain to overcome learning difficulties.

Gmails spam filter managed to filter just over 90% of spams for first time. Out of 255 spams received in two days 25 got through.

A very good answer to the exam question "Is Hell Exothermic" Critical Section - Is Hell Exothermic? The last paragraph reminds me of Robin Saxbys joke
Q.Which contraceptive do engineers use?
A. Their personality!

A bit naughty this, I got message from Nick Bolton at Firetrust (makers of the excellent Mailwasher product) to upgrade to latest version 4.01 . However after downloading, Mailwasher only works once and heres the rub your old registration key doesnt work! you have to fire of an email and get a new key. Even though his email says "all your existing settings will be retained".

Oh well I guess if you work against spammers all the time you must acquire some of their habits or "It takes one to catch one"

Thurs 20 May Update
Just received this.

Hi, it's Nick Bolton from Firetrust.

I've got some important news for you regarding our recent release of version 4.1 of MailWasher Pro

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Important Notice
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If you have just upgraded to version 4.1 and you're receiving an error message that your old registration key is invalid:

You may have purchased an early version of MailWasher Pro. Since then our key system has changed slightly. To get a valid key, go to the Register window and enter the email address you used to purchase MailWasher Pro into the "I've already registered but lost my key" area. Click on the "Please email me my key" button and you will be emailed a new key.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Interesting bit of new English sculpture 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE | Abigail Fallis | DNA DL90 A stack of supermarket trolleys in the shape of DNA, interestingly sponsored by one of the smaller UK supermarkets (Somerfields). Wonder if Abilgail Fallis will do one for Tesco or even better for The Sainsbury Centre

After reading a terrible tale from here I thought I would dig a bit deeper to find a removal programme. This one seems ok although havent tried it myself. A better scheme is probably to use the Firefox browser.

Great site that automatically calculates events in the skys above you. Apparently an iridium satellite is burning up tonight at 11.02pm due west of Cambridge at 30 degrees above horizon Welcome to Heavens-Above!

Gmail's last 24 hours SPAM score 85% detected out of 224 messages

Here is a three day camping kit including food and clothes only weighs 7kg Backpacking Checklist (Gear List): 3-Season, 3-Day at Backpacking Light

Wow a really cool new playtoy for extreme sports people. A low profile scooter that you steer with your feet. Wonder when we will see tham at Les Gets Wheelman - Bushpig

Here is another good news blog

Interesting story from a soldier in Iraq this with posts from the Iraqi bloggers bodes well for the future of Iraq. Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: A New E-Mail from the Front in Iraq: "I Ask That the American People Be Brave"
What is interesting is how my personal views on the war are been affected by reading the Iraqi blogs rather than the national press. Maybe the war was started on false reasons etc but surely it must be good to rid the world of a corrupt dictator and his family. I was very surprised that the FT this morning carried the picture of a beheading. When they never carried the pictures of Iranian (and probably) Iraqi people been hung from cranes etc.

Here are links to some Iraqi bloggers:-
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/

http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

Apparently NTL are uping their broadband speeds NTL follows fatter pipe rival Telewest - silicon.com . Havent noticed any speed improvement at home yet!

Gmails spam filter not working as well in past 24 hours. Received 162 spams. gmail correctly got 133 of them but let through 29....

Very interesting article from a Californian VC here "Hubbert's Peak" about when the oil will run out.

Dr. Hubbert (in response to remarks by David Nissen - Exxon): "... [T]here is a different and more fundamental cost that is independent of the monetary price. That is the energy cost of exploration and production. So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be." [referenced by Ivanhoe, 1982]

I remember reading about nuclear power stations requiring several years of their energy output just to build them. Wonder if it takes into accounts efficiency

The gmail spam filter is now working much better. Out of the 82 spam received in last 18 hours or so the filter correctly identified 73 of them. Seems strange that the filter works better after posting a reply on the extremetech forum herewere they were reviewing gmail.

Finally got blogger to generate a RSS feed from my website, secret given toi me on blogger forums was to put a forward slash at start and end of directory. Lets see if this pops up on my blogroll at Bloglines now.

Last night tried to set up the RSS function on my blog with the help from this post

Blogger went of air with some outdated message from last year. This morning I wake up to awhole new blogger, the interface is completly rehashed with help files etc and a much better way of showing old posts. However, tried publishing the whole site again to get the RSS feed in place. Comes up with a message after it has published about 10% that it has failed:-
553-"http://www.geoffjones.com" Directory does not exist on file:http://www.geoffjones.com/rss/rss.xml
.. damm

read new help file apparently shoulduse just /rss for feed directory. However, still fails after 18% thistime with error:-
550- 2004_03_08_nuyu_archive.htmlNo space left on device Error in upload on file:2004_03_08_nuyu_archive.html

this time at 50% 550- blogger.htmlNo space left on device Error in upload on file:blogger.html

now turn off rss function

Another test, this time I put step1 in the blogger template , rather than in the web site page

Came up with error 550 550- blogger.htmlNo space left on device Error in upload. Web host says I have 6MB left. This is so frustrating!

Tried republishing entire site rather than just latest. Comes back with
Current Status: Publishing is in progress. Please check back shortly.

A test to see if Haloscan comments appear

Here is an amazing story about how a really succesful company is run. Where the founder gets out and meets customers, even without a TV crew following him aroundInc.com | Street Smarts: Learning From JetBlue

A good site for finding out definitions of some common English words and expressionsQuestions & AnswersIndex Even has a RSS feed so I can get it using bloglines

gmail's spam filter is getting worse 107 identified 128 let through. That's two days worth of spam!

Interesting facts about my gmail account. In the 7 days I have had it opened 843 spams have arrived (from a redirection I set on the geoff@cortexcontrollers.com account) of these google succesfully put 424 into the spam box. The spam now occupies 2MB of space so in around 10 years the spam will fill my gmail account!

A cool bike for Cambridge, A mobile hotspot for laptops. Magic Bike :: Wireless Access Bike Perhaps we ought to have a punt hotspot for all the students revising on the banks of The Cam!

An article on how Google may spend its 250 million dollars on its new hardware this year. With 160GB discs costing around 100 dollars thats an awful lot of storage.BW Online | May 4, 2004 | Google's Big-Bucks Expansion Plans