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Brian’s vintage radios, clocks and other things

Videos of Brian Reeves-Hall giving the background to his vintage radios, clocks and other things! Click to view the playlist on YouTube. Check back for new additions in the weeks ahead.

Technology runs in my family – in my dad’s case it was a passion for vintage radios, clocks and cameras. But mainly [...]

The slow ‘faster’ Internet

BT sells Infinity, even to today, as having between 38 and 76Mbps speeds. Click for bigger picture.

I was one of the lead campaigners to bring BT Infinity to my lovely town of Whitchurch, Hampshire during the ‘Race to Infinity’ competition way back in the autumn of 2010. There were to be 10 [...]

Apple Shapes Career

To: rememberingsteve@apple.com

Dear Apple,

RIP Steve Jobs.

I didn’t know the two Steves when at age 11 my parents let me spend my CAN$1000 on an Apple ][+ computer. I had been using a Radio Shack TRS-80 for a year and wanted to stretch my abilities more. Little did I know that the company the [...]

Cycling to Cambridge conference was like floating on air

King's Cross Station - waiting for the Hogwarts Express to Cambridge.

I am a regular cycle-to-work kind of guy. I started the Cycle Scheme at work to help everyone there get their hands on a good quality bike for a knock-down price (all legal – its a scheme promoted by the Government). For me, that meant buying a Brompton. That was over a year ago now – wow time flies!

Well, this week I took my first expenses-paid business trip by train and bicycle -I can claim 20 pence per mile for bicycle travel (cars get 40 pence per mile – outrageous! Cyclists should be rewarded more!).

WEIGHTLESS BUSINESS TRIP

The reason for the trip was to get up to Cambridge, UK for a conference all about the next generation of wireless communication called Weightless. The conference was put on by Cambridge Wireless and pretty much run by the guys at a local startup there called Neul. I decided to go up a day early so that I could meet with some customers alongside our sales engineer and marketing engineer who flew in from Munich HQ. » Continue reading Cycling to Cambridge conference was like floating on air »

Sorry for site being down

Just back from a business trip, and I had an email from a person named Marcel saying they could not see this site! Oh dear. Sure enough, it wasn’t working! The whole site was just one big white screen!

The error log from the server stated… [15-Aug-2011 18:16:32] PHP Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening [...]