Posts by Michael

GPS is killing children

Rat Run = Failed infrastructure

Regardless of whether the SatNav is correctly routing you or not,

the fact is that "Rat Runs" are sometimes more efficient routes. Is

someone a rat just because the larger road infrastructure is so poor

they continuously have to find a better alternative route?

Half of European calls to be mobile by 2008

Free minutes : the great myth of mobile phones

How anyone, especially the phone companies, can describe anything

as "free", especially the minutes, is beyond me. I am waiting for a similar

system in other areas. New offer: Give Tesco £120 a month in advance and then

they'll give you £100 of free food a month.

Free minutes? If you're paying anything a month in advance then **It is not free*.

Free minutes would be free if the monthly tarrif was zero. Wake up everyone, it is

a con. You're paying the tarrif than then the companies brainwash you into telling you that once they deliver what you've paid for, it is free.

And why anyone would prefer to use an expensive mobile to mobile call

instead of a very cheap landline is ... I dunno. Madness.