Monthly Archives: March 2009

A copyright debate on Twitter

Economists have calculated thatt he optimum period for copyright is 14 years.

8 March 2009 – 20:06 | By kyber | Posted in blog | Tagged | View Comments

My daughter wants a prom dress

We never had Prom events to end one’s compulsory years of education in my day but it does seem to be catching on in the UK influenced one assumes by the popularity of these events in America as reflected in so many films. As my wife used to be a couture dressmaker and is still …

1 March 2009 – 20:23 | By admin | Posted in Family Life | Tagged , | View Comments

Twitter

Twitter seems to have become more than just another Web 2.0 social networking site, and more than the concept of micro-blogging might suggest. Time will tell of course if there is any value in this but I rather like the idea of having to get an update into 140 characters.

1 March 2009 – 19:05 | By kyber | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Termination of my 3 mobile broadband contract

I have been a mobile broadband user with 3 for 11 months on a 12 month contract so have given them the 30 days notice to terminate the contract as I do not want to continue to pay £25 a month for a service I have never been able to achieve. They could not offer me a better deal.

1 March 2009 – 15:03 | By admin | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Joining the iphone world

After year’s of resisting [we are talking Internet years here], I have finally gone ahead and bought an iPhone. This post has been made from it using the iBlogger application. The first version of the iphone was not so great for Europe as whilst very advanced at the usability level it was behind the state …

1 March 2009 – 09:07 | By kyber | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , | View Comments