• Some of our electricity is missing

    We use Ecotricity for electricity supply in our household, as they use the money we pay them to build new wind turbines.  Annoyingly, aliens are wrecking them. One early report said that a blade had been torn off and — ominously — was nowhere to be found (perhaps implying it had been abducted). A later…

  • Automatic photo tagging

    MyHeritage, a genealogy web site, claims it can automatically tag photos of people.  It uses face recognition to find faces in uploaded photos, then gets you to identify them.  The idea is that you only identify each person once, and it can automatically tag other photos of that person for you.

  • Streetview-style maps seeing inside buildings

    This Finnish mapping service has a mode that works like Google’s Street View, but it can let you look around inside buildings!  Take a look.  Try clicking on one of the buildings with a rectangle around it.

  • Queues

    While I was waiting in a queue at the Post Office, I was remembered something I thought while waiting in a queue on the phone to BT.  If there are fewer people serving at the desks or answering the phones and more people in the queues, and this becomes the norm, the people queueing will…

  • system-config-printer 1.1.0

    I just made system-config-printer-1.1.0 available.  Below are some of the changes compared to 1.0.12.