One night in London
Posted on September 2nd, 2006 in Travel
I’m staying at the Grange City Hotel where I got a great deal, £85.00 for a five star room. I’m right next to Trinity House and a block from the Tower of London. For Sim’s review of broadband internet in hotels, I was disappointed to find their wifi service was expensive. So I didn’t bother connecting. It was actually more expensive than T-Mobile UK service which is available in most train stations and airports.
I have a blister on my foot from wandering the streets of London for 3 hours last night. I went out to look for an interesting place to eat. It started very promising, there was a 007 party at the Billingsgate Fish Market building. I crossed the Thames at London Bridge and passed many drunken and smokey pubs filled with Friday night drinkers. However two hours later I had not found a place that interesting and inviting enough to dine alone in.
Spyware hits Sydney International Airport Kiosks
Posted on August 28th, 2006 in Travel
I wrote beforethat Samsung privides free internet kiosks at Sydney International Airport. Unfortunately in a sign of the times, all the free kiosks are spyware infected tonight. So infected that none of them are operational.
Firstly it’s foolish to run an unattended public internet accessable kiosk on Windows XP. I don’t know how often these PC’s are rebuilt I’d hope overnight. I’ll check them on the way back in Sydney.
Secondly it again reminds me to be paranoid about the sites I access from a public computer. No password enabled sites, no banking, ebay, paypal or any site that can be attractive to a bad guy. Even accessing webmail from one of these devices is risky if it’s your primary email address.
