Technocentral

As part of the governments commitment to online and communication technologies it has decided that from April 2010 it will give postcode data FREE of charge to anybody who would like to use it.

This data may also extend to Ordnance Survey information but at the moment talks are still pregressing about what type of information, and how much will be avilable.  It remains to be seen whether this data will include geolocation data crossed reference with a postcode.

So this is great news for we site developes but obviously bad news for the post office and for the many many postcode services and software companies out there.

Here at technocentral we think that this could have something to do with the leak a few months ago of the postcode data.

Thanks to sites such as http://wikileaks.org/ Anybody can (somewhat illegally) have access to postcode data now, when it wasn’t really possible before…. And it’s highlighted to the people that the government has this data which is paid for tax payers money, and therefore should be public domain information. Previously, everybody assumed the data was held solely by the post office.

As for why it’s taken so long? Dunno…. But we do know that It’s ludicrous why this data is so expensive in the first place…… The post office charges a fortune to help make thier life easier……. Only the type of economics that a near monopoly can get away with

Hmmmmm.  If you don’t get it (although it is pretty self explanatory)…. it seems that burger king in Japan apparently has a special edition Microsoft Windows 7 Burger with no less than 7 burgers…..

Apparently this is true and not a hoax….. We at technocentral are not convinced though

I wouldn’t like to be Microsoft lawyers when all the heart attack law suits start hitting.

Okay, this isn’t really anything to do with technical, gadgets, mobile phones or anything….. But you know, we at technocentral have familys and lives outside of “techno den” (yes really) and had to gasp in amazement when visiting a local city farm this weekend that they really felt they had the need to put up signs explaining HOW to wash your hands.

Now, if there was a knack to it then I would understand…. But….

1. Put soap onto hands
2. Rub soap all over back and front of hands
3. Hold hands under running water and rub together
4. Dry hands with a clean paper towel

Looking forward to the day that education in the UK gets so good we won’t need signs like these, but I fear THAT will never happen.