I’m in Geneva for 4 days, attending an ISOC event called GlobalINET. An Internet conference.
Workshops are taking place on Saturday and Sunday and Internet Society chapters from all over the world have send delegates (I’m representing ISOC England) to share knowledge. It’s the most collaborative conference I’ve ever been to – just sitting and listening isn’t an option!
Chapter dinner at a Swiss restaurant
The cheese fondue was not universally popular. Most of my table were aghast at the idea of eating hot cheese and left in search of more traditional fare.
This new No.19 has an electric diesel engine and is known as a Hybrid. The diesel engine cuts out at bus stops and traffic lights and it pulls away on its electric motor. The diesel kicks in seamlessly after a few seconds.
Should mean less pollution on our streets.
A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker (Front)
The rattle of the diesel dying at bus stops still feels as though the passengers are all about to ordered off the broken down bus.
A Wright Gemini 2 hybrid double-decker (back)
Tags: bus, engineering
A friend has joined www.housebites.com. It’s where you order takeway food from home cooks. People cook food for you in their home kitchens. Housebites provide the online menu, taking the order and the money, and the delivery. It’s all very ‘social’ so you get feedback, ratings, twitter and so on. Cuban anyone?
Tags: food, home cooking
As part of our regular feature on new steam trains, I’m happy to announce that the second new oil-fired steam locomotive meant for the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) rolled out from the Golden Rock Railway Workshop on Monday.
‘X' class metre gauge steam loco
You can read more at TheHindu.com.
Tags: steam loco
Thats the time and temperature in our bedroom. Bit of a cold start this morning! No heating in my place – not normally needed, but this is the chilliest its been for a long time.
Tags: chilly
Tags: Chinese New year
Over the years my computer toolbar has established a small number of programs that I use all the time. I would like to use free* software every time, but there are some tools I use for work that I just can’t replicate with a free alternative. Some of the versions I use are ancient by today’s standards but do the job for me.
My most used software 2012
| Free* | Commercial |
|---|---|
| Thunderbird | SecureCRT (SSH client) |
| Firefox | WSPing ProPack |
| WinSCP | Navicat (MySQL management) |
| OpenOffice | MS RemoteDesktop |
| Dropbox | TextPad |
| Pidgin (instant messenger) | Fireworks |
*Free has two meanings in the world of computer software
- Free (as in beer) – this means at no cost. You get the software for nothing.
- Free (as in speech) – this means not closed, proprietary. You could take a aprt the software and rewrite it if you wanted to, and this is explicitly allowed.
Why not let me know what software you can’t live without, by filling in the comment box below.
Tags: useful software
