Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It also includes a two-speaker surround sound system, presumably so others can appreciate your tasteful selection of ring tones in glorious high fidelity, and an optical scanner in the base. With the scanner, you just swipe the phone across the...
[July 4, 2003, 17:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's not a fingerprint scanner to which I wish to give the finger… As I've been mostly asleep between then and now - excepting being mostly awake since Monday evening - my personal neurochemistry seems unaffected by melatonin - I haven't had...
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Palm M100, Gateway laptop, Sony shortwave radio, HP digital camera, Icom R2 VHF scanner, Sendo moby.travel light, that's what I say, especially when you've got a weekend off. Tuesday 4/6/2002 The train from Edinburgh is only 40 minutes late getting...
[June 7, 2002, 18:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's also desperately vulnerable to some plonker kicking over the generator, scrawling "BIG BROTHER IS READING YOUR PLATES: TURN LEFT IF YOU'VE SOMETHING TO HIDE" on a sign just down the road, or coming back to the scene of the crime a few minutes...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog BitDefender, the Romanian company who added the signature of the virus to their scanner only to receive complaints from users who liked what it did, is unsure. And don't think I wasn't tempted), the idea of seeking out and destroying all the bad...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Using the crude technology of the time I interface with eBay, whose scanners throw up artefacts far more interesting than anything that ever appeared on our scanner screens. But what do you do when you've turned your flat into a film set...
[May 2, 2003, 14:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog MP3s captured by scanner enthusiasts reputedly exist which contain stuff like: Most of the two-way radios I've seen have a little light that lights up red when you're on the air and doesn't when you're not, and its absence from plane radios is...
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
