National Work Your Proper Hours Day
The irony of this is that on a Friday most people leave early for the weekend, or at least go down to the pub for a jar or two.
Archive for February, 2004
Thieves ravage Texan ATMs
Looks like skimming isn’t limited to the UK — welcome to the latest fashion crime.
Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer
Stealing someones ATM card and PIN number has gone high tech. Here’s some photographs of a device built by someone and attached to an ATM in London to record the information on the magnetic strip and take a picture of the person entering their PIN number.
The Freshest Food Made to Order
One of the coffee shops near Wynyard in Sydney now takes orders by SMS. Both in London and Sydney there are places you can pay for parking via your phones SMS messaging. I think we will start to see this becoming mainstream, beyond this limited audience stuff that has been available for some time. It could take longer here in the US, where SMS still isn’t as widely used [via AJH]
This Humvee Is Car and Driver
Aside from the Red Team’s Hummer, the Toyota Prius that I just rented from Hertz must be the most technologically advanced car on the road today. I was highly impressed on the 200 mile drive down from Boston. Hopefully that will continue over the next few days.
It’s a strange beast to drive: it feels just like a normal car, but then something in the back of your mind surfaces and tells you it’s different. I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe it’s all in the mind.
The Woody is Back
It was only a matter of time …
By slicing the car in two behind the front seats and adding nearly 250mm to the body either side of the back wheels, the MINI’s tiny rear passenger and luggage compartments have grown to become one of the class’s most practical.
Tetris: A chip off the old bloc
A nice history on the game of Tetris and it’s Russian creator Alexey Pajitnov.
Europe and US inch towards GPS accord
I can’t believe the EU would agree to building a system that the US can jam “for military reasons”. The American Empire building continues.