French Education to include more English

France’s education minister yesterday admitted for the first time that the secret to success is speaking better English. Xavier Darcos claimed poor English is now a ‘handicap’ because all international business is conducted in the language, and said French schools would offer extra lessons during the holidays. He also admitted that, because of globalisation, very Read more about French Education to include more English[…]

Ubiquity for Firefox

Ubiquity adds a whole load of command line functionality to Mozilla Firefox – email content on the pages, look it up in wikipedia, loads and loads of commands, and you can teach it your own commands too. There are as many user programmed commands out there now as there are extensions!

Report on your neighbour

Spying on your neighbour and reporting them to the authorities. Not for profit, but for fun! If you’re lucky your local council will appoint you to be the volunteer, unpaid, neighbourhood spy! No, it’s not Nazi Germany, not Stalin’s USSR, not even Bush’s US of A. It’s the United Kingdom, birthplace of Churchill!

Waterproofing is hot!

We have had in rapid succession a transparent water repellent coating and Golden Shellback which water and dustproofs. Now we have a British process to make any item ‘100% waterproof’ through ion masking. They can’t yet do electronics though they’re working on it.

Subtitles

This page links to a program that allows you to create subtitles for movies, but also to subloaddownloader, which finds them for you. Sublight also downloads and manages your subtitles

Cloud computing – the best definition I’ve heard yet

This phrase I’ve been seeing EVERYWHERE the past couple of months. No-one can really define what it is though. So here is the best explanation of it yet: It’s been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with any CTO-friendly name you like, Read more about Cloud computing – the best definition I’ve heard yet[…]