Archive for May, 2004

Vehicular Platooning to avoid speeding tix

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Im sure ive talked to you guys about vehicle “platooning” which isnt a new concept. Basically cars’ computers get together and platoon - a lead vehicle takes charge, and the others space themselves safely out behind, or to the sides. All negotiated by onboard computers.

My (genius) idea is to get this kind of […]

Webmail services: Inbuilt spam fighting?

Monday, May 10th, 2004

Webmail (gmail/hotmail/yahoomail) services have a really powerful spam/virus fighting tool in their very framework: the fact that they own the mailservers for countless thousands of email addresses.

Surely it wouldnt take a genius at one of these free email services to do a quick comparison of emails being sent to multiple people, and blocking those which […]

I see a self-promoting jerk.

Sunday, May 9th, 2004

I got this sms from a guy I do english/history with called Jamie, on Friday night. transcript follows verbatim:

“end of week two, and all is well. They’re all looking at me and saying “this is the next generation, huh? A few kinks maybe, but pretty damn good”. I is happy :)

Jamie. […]