Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

No York on Google Maps

Friday, November 16th, 2012

I was browsing Google Maps the other day and I noticed that York, one of England’s most celebrated cities does not warrant a label on Google Maps! Something of a serious oversight I believe!

Cookie’s

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

A Short YouTube Video explaining the Cookie law

This site uses cookies via Google Analytics for the purpose of recording traffic, I don’t know anything about the user other than simple facts like Browser type, Operating System, screen resolution etc. As it stands, tracking the visitors is simply a measure of the volume of readers, which can be analysed in a variety of ways, harmless! Apparently it is now illegal to set a cookie on a client machine without receiving prior consent, to do this involves more work, it is more intrusive than the cookie itself, and like most laws which start off in the EU as a directive, a bloody nuisance. I suggest recording your irritation at this EU nonsense by signing a petition on change.org. There is a host of information on the web about this new law and I found this pdf by Oliver Emberton of Silkide

Innocent Until Proven Guilty!

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Huhne Ex-Minister... Horray!Image file courtesy of Wikipedia

It seems that it is time to celebrate, whether or not the Huhne person is found guilty of perverting the course of justice or not. He is a dead parrot as far as his ministry of climate change is concerned. The question remains though, will his departure herald a new awareness of practical and sensible policies in respect of the energy crisis, he and his ilk have created. Or will it be carry on straight ahead, the road is clear, lets legislate the country back to the sixteenth century, with the damaging and ludicrous and so called, but not at all renewable, green environmental policies!