Category: Internet


Privacy and Google Street View

Mar 24, 2009 Author Nik

Google recently launched their Street View service in the UK, which is integrated with Google Maps, and allows you to view seamless 360 degree photo panoramas of a number of locations throughout the country. It’s just like a virtual tour of those locations.

The images were captured using a camera mounted on top of a car fitted with a GPS recording system. The images are stored with their GPS location, so finding the images surrounding a covered area is straightforward. Most of London is covered.

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Uncensored

Dec 9, 2008 Author Nik

Further to my previous rant on censorship, it seems the IWF has decided it may have dropped a clanger in its decision to block (most) UK Internet access to a particular web page.

The statement on their website implies the decision to unblock the web page was theirs alone, and makes no mention of the global outcry caused by their initial action.

Surely, the backtracking thought process that went on at the IWF is one that should have happened before blocking the web page in the first place..?

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Censorship

Dec 7, 2008 Author Nik

Well, it seems the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), an independent UK-based Internet watchdog, has got itself into what could be a major publicity debacle; one from which it simply cannot emerge without losing a lot of face.

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Tomorrow: Blog Action Day

Oct 14, 2008 Author Nik

I just found out from StatCounter.com that tomorrow is Blog Action Day ’08, a well-meaning attempt to turn the online community’s attention to the topic for this year: global poverty.

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Hardcore HTML

Sep 8, 2008 Author Nik

I’ve never really had any cause to write large posts using WordPress, except for my NSLU2 guides – and even then the built-in WYSIWYG editor was good enough, albeit a little clunky and requiring gentle persuasion every so often.

But after changing blog themes the other day, I realised the NSLU2 pages were actually quite dependent on the underlying CSS – and for some themes, this means that they looked rubbish.

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