Archive for December, 2005

Open Wireless Access Points

Wednesday, 28th December, 2005

On a short walk with my WiFi enabled Palm recently, I was amazed to find so many open wireless access points.
While some of these are in residential areas, most surprising was the number of businesses leaving themselves wide open. Whoever had set them up had gone as far as changing the SSID to the business […]

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Spirit of Sport

Friday, 2nd December, 2005

I drove past the new Spirit of Sport sculpture next to the Reebok Stadium this morning.
For something that’s supposed to be 21ft higher than the Angel of the North, it doesn’t look very tall, although the Angel of the North is raised up on a hill, rather than stuck in the middle of a roundabout.
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