Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Simply amazing thatthe Greeks were cutting gears in 80BC and making complicated machinery such as this. A device for demonstrating the motion of planets. I wonder what else they built.

Really great bit of Linux kit here that allows you to plug in any old USB drive to your network. Only $99, although doesnt seem available in the UK. Contains all software for incremental archives etc etc Just the thing to hide away in your thief and fireproof box at home.

GMail’s spam filters are getting much better. Its now correctly identifying 97% of incoming spam messages. At this rate my old geoff@cortexcontrollers.com email address will be usable again.

Another aggregator here apparently it learns what you are interested in. First glance doesnt seem so clean as www.bloglines.com