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Waving with Google

I have been playing with Google Wave for about a week, and while it is interesting I have not really had enough time with it to write up much here yet.

If you are on Wave, you can find me as “anton.piatek” on Wave

If you are not on Wave and want to have a . . . → Read More: Waving with Google

Virgin broadband – not so fast!

I wrote a while ago about the speed of virgin broadband vs. Be but my internet has been feeling rather slow recently… So I decided to take another speed test.

For reference the previous test got 9Mb/s download and 0.49Mb/s upload. The old speed wasn’t too bad, but still wasn’t as good as Be . . . → Read More: Virgin broadband – not so fast!

Virgin Broadband and linux = pain

When I moved house in July, I decided to sign up for Virgin Broadband. Virgin was an obvious choice as they could connect me and have broadband available within about two days.

So I signed up and the modem arrived two days later. I plug it in, trying to follow their instructions, phone them up . . . → Read More: Virgin Broadband and linux = pain

Broadband speed comparison – Be vs Virgin

I have just moved house, and changed internet provider to Virgin (simply because they could have the internet connected in about 2 days, which is faster than getting even a BT line installed). I did some quick speed tests to show how my old provider (Be) compares to Virgin. (Note that on Be I had . . . → Read More: Broadband speed comparison – Be vs Virgin

Google chrome on linux

A colleague from uni who now works for google wrote a brief post about google chrome, which has just been released for linux and he is working on it.

I decided to grab a copy and try it out.

I am very impressed with it so far. It is basic – lacking plugins, so no . . . → Read More: Google chrome on linux

Time-lapse tilt-shift photography

I had never thought of combining time-lapse photography (making a video by taking lots of photos and turning them into a sped up video, similar to stop-motion) with a tilt-shift lens (a very expensive and custom lens normally used to correct odd perspective problems but also has the effect of a narrow depth of field . . . → Read More: Time-lapse tilt-shift photography