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Wee! I was interviewed by the Guardian today.Their staff were working from Brighton Beach doing a piece on wireless networking and blogging in Brighton. They arrived with a bunch of wifi enabled laptops to edit Friday’s G2 supplement from the beach. They were connected through PierToPier . The node is at RipTide gym and the

How to get rid of Messenger Service Spam popups What is it? That annoying Windows system popup advertising products, services and porn every time while you are online. (Note: I am not referring to browser popup ads). Every Windows XP & 2000 PC runs “Messenger” as once of its system services. This is a normal

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Tool making crowIn the Brevia section of the 9 August 2002 issue of Science, Weir et al. report a remarkable observation: The toolmaking behavior of New Caledonian crows. In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a

Rich elite prosper in Zim crisisWhile shelves are bare in regular stores, other advertisements offer foodstuffs, cooking oil and even bank note counting machines to help traders in the hyperinflationary economy do their business. Harare economist John Robertson said about ZIM$6000 buys today what ZIM$100 bought in 1995. Black market gasoline, selling for four times