BBC news has a lot of information.
One interesting technology part – again from the BBC
Mobile phone services across London were jammed with all major networks reporting problems as people tried to contact relatives and friends. A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the emergency services were being given priority.
Was ACCess Overload Control (ACCOLC) put in place?
More details here, here and here.
Year 2000 ACCOLC article here.
Wow. Grandpa is selling room space within Zone 2 for $2000 a night already..
I saw this on The Register this morning. The local interest (Utah woman gets $15k for tattoo on face) angle was interesting – but I thought “no one could be that crazy”.
The local Deseret News ran the story – and it all seems genuine enough.
Hunting around – and it looks like it may be a fake:
“However, the lack of blood or bloody tissue, redness or swelling … makes me still seriously doubt this is real.”
A new channel appeared in the last week or so – Logo – and I’m sure there will be complaints from the locals. We quite like it 😉
WELCOME TO LOGO!
For the first time ever, Gay America has a home on television where we can go to see ourselves. On LOGO you will see more than 200 lesbian and gay films, an ongoing documentary series, newscasts tailored for a gay and lesbian audience and quality original shows and specials. Programming that reflects our lives. Programming that tells our stories.
I was talking to a friend about posting to the web – and I mentioned that I’d had a personal website since about 1993. The challenge was to see if it was still hosted.
Google is my friend. I found one of my old websites – and it’s not been touched in over nine years. I’m wgetting it now to host at home. (Unlikely it’s going to go away soon – it’s been static for nine years!)
Way back in the distant past (1990) I had access to the ‘internet’ from a VMS host at university; telnet, VMSmail, lynx – all good stuff.
Just after – around 1991 – I also got a CompuServe account – mainly for access to the Novell technical forums and patches.
When I could afford a ‘better’ workstation (386dx33, 32MB RAM, 40MB HDD, Windows 3.11!) in around 1993 I finally moved to a ‘real’ dialup PPP account using Almac in Scotland. That’s when I first had personal webspace. A whole couple of meg online.
Finally I moved to UUNet/Pipex and used that service for around five years.
Now I host at home with a dedicated line and fixed IP.
It’s incredible how times have changed.
At 10.30 the alarms went off and the building evacuated; like so many ants swarming out of an ants nest.
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