Dear America, our faithful British agents have infiltrated your mighty nation and are taking over from within. Your American heroes are British. Your greatest minds are British. Your most awe-inspiring gun-slingers are actually British… How did we do it? We walked right up to your front door and pretended Continue Reading
Firefox OS
As many expected, the Mozilla “Boot to Gecko” project has become “Firefox OS”. Gecko is the software behind the scenes of the Firefox web browser that reads the HTML, style sheets, etc. code and converts it into a webpage. Boot-to-Gecko is Mozilla’s plan to make a mobile phone platform based entirely Continue Reading
Google Glass Steals the Show at IO ’12
Today, Google’s annual IO developers conference kicked off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. During a talk by patronising Google+ Chief, Vic Gundotra, Google co-founder, Sergey Brin thankfully interrupted wearing one of the pairs of “Google Glass” glasses we’ve seen him and vocally-impaired other-co-founder, Larry Page, sporting lately.One commenter Continue Reading
Func<T> vs. Action<T>
Although I’ve been using Func<T> and Action<T> for years, I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t really thought about the differences between them – or more importantly, how they are in fact two sides of the same coin. Most of the time their use has been a natural reflex action to Continue Reading
Facebook to Allow Post Editing
Facebook will soon let you edit your posts and comments, but in my gut I don’t agree with this. It feels wrong. You see, Facebook is special. Very special in fact. It isn’t just a website, it’s grown beyond that. It’s much more than just a fancy bulletin-board or a Continue Reading
The Stupidity of Gateshead Council: Explained!
This morning, commuters have awoken to find new road markings on my beloved B6317 approach to Blaydon roundabout. And these ones make much more sense. Instead of having two lanes, one which ends abruptly, with no signage – not even a warning that there IS a new road layout!! – Continue Reading
British Airways to open Whitehall Airport
Offering fantastic city-centre access without the fuss of traversing the M25 London Ring Road, British Airways’ new Whitehall Airport in the middle of London will replace their Terminal 5 operation and provide a new class of point-to-point international air service.
The Stupidity of Gateshead Council
This month a local authority in the north-east of England have executed a nonsensical, short-sighted strategy to drive their tax-paying customers to frustrated anarchy. If you can make any sense of this please let me know in the comments at the bottom. Men In Road For as long as Continue Reading