Luke Sheldrick's Blog

Just catching up on my mountain of RSS, saw this on the reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/30/faraday_train_windows. It would seem the train operator that runs my daily commute train is embrasing the 21st century by blocking wifi / mobile transmissions, by coating the windows with reflective film.

This is in an attempt to make the quiet zones, quiet. One word…. FAIL. The noise in these carriages is usually a screaming 6month old, or some 13 year old chav, playing eminem, out of their tinny Nokia music player… I hardly thing cutting the business world off from their crackberrys is going to do much.

Also interestingly they don’t mention that they will cut off their ‘in-train wi-fi’ which is run by t-mobile, using their ‘cloud’.

Today I ventured on the C2C train line,  well being bussled, in a tight seat, having someone fall asleep on my shoulder, and being bored shitless, all for a value £13.80 a day, bargain! Just confirms how much I hate public transport. Really makes me think that if we are to ever reduce our ‘carbon footprint’ they really need to make public transport a decent alternative, to my nice warm, clean, quick car.

I mentioned earlier about m0n0wall, and how impressed I was with it. Had the first problem with it the other day. Well m0n0wall runs of a CD (a linux live-cd) and keeps it’s xml config on a floopy. The problem is, (as I remember from yonder years) floopys tend to corrupt. Wasn’t a huge problem, a quick reconfigure with another floopy from under my bed, and away we go

Burgers: I have eaten too much junk, and neglected the gym for over 6 months, and oh it hit me today how much it’s caught up. Looked at the belly today, which was ab flat and getting a pack before, now well, it’s not. Back to the gym tomorrow. Gonna try and go as often as I can, as there is one on my route to/from work, so no excuse really. Am dredding it though.