* Posts by Allan

4 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2008

Segway shock army to invade Department of Transport

Allan

George B...

Bush fell of the Segway because he had not turned the power on. No power, means no motors or Gyros = no stability.

For those of you who have never ridden one, try it.

Yes a Segway will not get you fit like a bike.

But is it unstable, no, I took photos, two handed standing on a segway - I'd not try that standing on my bike.

Safe for the streets, yes if you can keep idots off of them - like cars, bikes, feet.

Amazon to sell one OLPC laptop for the price of two

Allan

A poweful argument for OLPC...

...lis made by this video on TED : http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html

BAA boots Vulture from T5 frequent flyer club

Allan

To join the club you have to give fingerprints...

Another reason to wonder about T5 is the fingerprint issue :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=F11&blog=yourview&xml=/news/2008/03/08/view08b.xml

Sun pulls MySQL into its orbit

Allan

Free?

MySQL is open source, so will, in some form, remain free in both senses.