Archive for December, 2006
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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
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Friday, December 8th, 2006
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Road Pricing
I’m very very much against road pricing, the latest (old) idea to come out of one of the governments think tanks; Each vehicle has a box that receives position signals from satellites (the ‘downlink’) (GPS or the European Gallileo system) and records vehicle movements in some sort of local memory. At some specified interval the [...]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Race to Dakar
I’ve just finished reading the quite amazing book from Charley Boorman – Race to Dakar – First of all I want to make it clear that I really enjoyed Long Way Round, even though I’d watched ‘the real boys’ doing it several years earlier on no budget, with no support crew and certainly no big [...]