Month: May 2007

The Great South African Bandwidth Swindle

Published by Simon Angling on May 30, 2007

The Free Bandwidth Campaign website states that South Afrian’s monthly bandwidth allocation is not supposed to include local traffic? “According to regulations promulgated in terms of the Electronic Communications Act of 2005, all local bandwidth must be provided free to ADSL users. “The local bandwidth regulation was gazetted as Notice…

What’s in a name

Published by Simon Angling on May 9, 2007

I’ve never disliked the surname Angling but it sometimes gets tiring saying “yes, like fishing” all the time. According to the WSJ article You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well it would seem I am pretty lucky having my name.

Riot in Social Media Land

Published by Simon Angling on May 2, 2007

There seems to be a bit of a riot going on over a Digg over a decision to remove a story that included a key that would allow someone to crack the copy protection on an HD-DVD. Every other story seems to be about the HD-DVD key or Kevin Rose’s…