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British Telecom has announced plans to invest $3 billion to set up high speed broadband to 10 million homes in the UK by 2012. Speeds will reach up to 100 Mbps.
BT say that homes linked into the current type of cable infrastructure - fiber to boxes in the street, and then copper wire from there [...]

If you’re in either London or New York before June 15th, you can take a look at each other through the Telectroscope.
If you’re in New York, it’s free; Londoners have to pay one pound.
Check it out here
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It’s quite an imposing building, and it’s tied to one of my all-time favorite breweries, Fuller, Smith and Turner of nearby Chiswick, but alas, it’s a dire place to drink, particularly at night.
About the only good thing you can say is that it seems to keep the rabble out of the much nicer, and smaller, [...]

It seems that every day of the year is a day for something.
Today, in the United Kingdom, is Walk To Work Day. Did you know that in London there are over 100 tube journeys that are actually quicker to walk, when you take into account the time spent standing in line waiting to get a [...]

The wonders of technology means I can track human progress across the Atlantic these days almost as good as that UPS parcel from the other coast.

Flight # 733

Depart
London, United Kingdom (London)

Date
4/14/2008

Gate
****

Scheduled
10:40 AM

Actual
10:38 AM

Status
Departed

Flight Status

Diverted To

Date

Actual

Arrive
Charlotte, NC

Date
4/14/2008

Gate
D3

Scheduled
2:25 PM

Actual
2:30 PM

Status
Estimated Arrival

Why Charlotte? Why not Charleston? Well Charleston airport is so expensive, they each save about [...]