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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Sometime during the afternoon, a researcher phones the office to ask: "How should we describe your chap, er, Rudolph Goodwins? People think the same about downloading files from peer-to-peer services as their parents did about taping songs from the...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Thursday
Blog Although the place is unashamedly aimed at prepubescent kids, it has more than enough fantastic exhibits to keep a very post-pubescent Goodwins happy as he wanders around. I know that Intel are doing some very interesting things with mesh radio...
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog However, Goodwins Minor celebrated his first Scottish Hogmanay by contracting some devilish disorder, and got booked into Glasgow Southern General for a week or so. Having educated the nearest and dearest in the true treasures of this world, my...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can read a blog from an ISP in the middle of it all that's keeping going with its own generator, you can listen to the National Guard radio networks via streamed audio, you can watch before and after satellite pictures, you can even hear the...
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog DAB hasn't got much bandwidth, so the pictures are cut down to fit the display — and while we haven't had a chance to play with the service, we know all too well how good DAB is for radio on the move.
[September 8, 2006, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A friend who has access to such things reports that the "wombles" -- ringleaders of the protest -- were high on the plod's list of people to watch, leading to some splendidly surreal radio conversations.
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
Wednesday
Blog Perhaps the most interesting thing about the watch is the radio technology used to relay information to it -- it's something called DirectBand, which is a way of subtly modulating FM broadcast signals to carry small amounts of data.
[January 10, 2003, 16:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If pressed and released briefly it summons a 'QuickList' menu -- where one of the items lets you turn the radio -- presumably to let you watch movies on the thing when airborne on something more reliable than two planks of wood.
[January 10, 2003, 16:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Once he triggered the Local Traffic Information signal on Greater London Radio, causing car radios all over the capital to switch to GLR from whatever they were listening to: "We have control of your radio!
[October 24, 1998, 11:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Once he triggered the Local Traffic Information signal on Greater London Radio, causing car radios all over the capital to switch to GLR from whatever they were listening to: "We have control of your radio!
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
Intel Senses United Wireless Future In 802.21
News The standard will contain ways for mobile devices to analyse the radio environment about them, with different layers in the software providing hints or triggers when it's time to change from Wi-Fi to 3G, for example, he said.
[August 23, 2005, 16:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I listen with half an ear to the show while tapping away at the diary: sometimes I think Radio 4's daytime schedule only exists as aural wallpaper for the middle classes to do something else to. My idea of hell is being forced to watch Arsenal play...
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Radio conditions have been terrible all week, and there's a fair chance of some really good aurora this evening -- possibly visible from most of the UK. With its radio knocked out by the crippled ionosphere, the thin air around it swarming with...
[October 24, 2003, 15:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Bloke on the blower from the Beeb: "Can you pop in and do something for Radio 5 Live on Microsoft Versus The American Government? Try answering that on nationwide radio without thinking of lawyers. Will anyone watch?
[May 16, 1998, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Bloke on the blower from the Beeb: "Can you pop in and do something for Radio 5 Live on Microsoft Versus The American Government? Try answering that on nationwide radio without thinking of lawyers. Will anyone watch?
[May 16, 1998, 6:00]
MWC: Nokia Kicks Things Off
Blog And the N78, which is an update to the N73 and has HSDPA, FM transmitter - play your phone music on home or car radio - 3.2 megapixel camera, and geotagging: take a picture, and the phone puts the GPS co-ordinates in the metadata.
[February 11, 2008, 9:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Turns out this is very non-trivial: the whalers now observe military conditions of radio silence, so you can't direction-find them. Still, lots of companies are seeing ISPhood as being just as much fun as owning their own radio station, and with as...
[July 4, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Turns out this is very non-trivial: the whalers now observe military conditions of radio silence, so you can't direction-find them. Still, lots of companies are seeing ISPhood as being just as much fun as owning their own radio station, and with as...
[July 4, 1998, 7:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No mention whether they'll be able to pick up naughty 5GHz radio networks, so we'll have to wait and see whether they'll end up as standard Ofcom equipment, to be towed behind detector vans, but we can but hope.
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We nattered about spyware, and after the show I asked him how he manages to do both the BBC3 TV show and the Radio 4 PM programme, which goes out an hour earlier. I don't have a USB drive watch or pen, but I could do, and I've seen some cut-down...
[July 9, 2004, 19:05]
