According to ENN your humble correspondent is now considered a “long-time industry activist”.

I’ve been working with a piece of software and hardware for Windows 2000 called Geovision over the last few days to set up a CCTV system. It’s quite a simple piece of kit for someone technical to set up and use. But it seems to be incredibly well designed and written by an anonymous group of Taiwanese people by the looks of things. It’s not that expensive to implement either – you could set up with two cameras for less than GBP 200
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This is a joke that Joi Ito told me.

Two middle easterners move to the US. They make a bet on who can become the most American within just one year. They arrange to get back together one year later to talk about how things have progressed.

Twelve months elapse and they meet again. The first Middle Easterner is proud of what he has achieved and says so. “It’s going really well, I feel like a real American. I got an SUV, a sexy wife, joined the country club,bought a house in the suburbs with swimming pool, went on holidays to florida…”
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I am off to Berlin for a few days on business to pursue a GPS/GPRS related business opportunity. Will be back at the weekend.

An Irish university lecturer, Sean O Nuallain has launched an attack on Irish government policy with respect to the software industry at a lecture in UC Berkeley. He is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University. According to ENN UC Irvine plans to invite him to repeat the same lecture.
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The government through the regulatoris now seriously considering introducing postcodes in Ireland. Let me tell you the dirty little secret of why we don’t have postal codes in Ireland at the moment.
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One thing that strikes you when you investigate GPRS (which is basically the system for using the Internet on your mobile phone). The people in the mobile phone shops don’t understand the technology or its applications very well at all.
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This is a little demo of part of the stuff I’ve been researching over the last few months with GPS and GPRS systems. Basically, what it does is to tell you where the unit (which spends a lot of time in my car) is currently located. It works fine in a roaming situation too.
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I am working on a project which involves accurately locating vehicles and reporting their locations back to base. Basically, it uses a mix of a technology called GPS (global positioning system) and GPRS (general packet radio service, which is basically a way of using the mobile network to connect to the Internet). This is really useful technology which hasn’t been anything like fully exploited.
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