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How to Get a Refund from East Coast in 15+ Easy Steps – Part 2 4 Jun 2013 | 11:26 pm
Following on from How to Get a Refund from East Coast in 15+ Easy Steps East Coast’s press team have turned out to respond to emails a lot faster than their customer service department. A chap called...
It’s 2013 and My [Note|Net|Ultra]book is Still Too Big 4 Jun 2013 | 01:36 am
For years I’ve harboured a vision of a perfect mobile computing device. It’s not a smartphone and it’s not a tablet, and while they’re heading the right way it’s not any of the present ultrabooks. I...
How to Get a Refund from East Coast in 15+ Easy Steps 2 Jun 2013 | 11:05 am
A lot of people don’t know that if you buy a train ticket in the UK and an operator later cancels the train, you’re due a full refund. But despite the strict 28-day limit laid out in the rules compani...
My Response to the ORR’s Consultation on Real-Time Train Information 26 Feb 2013 | 07:10 am
My long-promised response to the consultation on real-time transport information. Download a PDF. The Office of Rail Regulation’s consultation on Real Time Train Information runs until February 28th s...
You Can’t Use the Live UK Train Data Without Accepting a Gagging Clause 22 Feb 2013 | 08:51 am
I last wrote about open rail data in December after the ORR’s excellent transparency conference. Many organisations in the rail industry spoke about their desire for better sharing of travel informat...
Cheap Drones: Regulation (or “One Day Someone Will Drop Eggs on the Pope”) 20 Jan 2013 | 06:24 am
Last week I posted a bunch of thoughts on where cheap, ubiquitous drone technology will take us. There are a lot of positive uses – enough that drones won’t be banned outright – but we’ll see some ba...
Cheap Drones: What Will They Change? 14 Jan 2013 | 12:43 am
In the last post I bleated for 700 words about what an awesome, hackable toy Parrot AR drones make. Tinkering with one has been quite an adventure and I’m impressed that workable flying machines can ...
I ♥ My Drone 12 Jan 2013 | 10:19 pm
For Christmas someone gave me a simple little remote controlled helicopter. You know the deal: IR remote, barely controllable, built in camera to record to MicroSD. Too dangerous to fly in the house...
“Free” Station WiFi on the London Underground. Except When It’s Not. 2 Jan 2013 | 07:37 pm
I’m blogging this in the hope of sparing anyone else the bother I’ve had registering for Virgin Media’s tube wifi once it stops being free at the end of the month. Tl;dr: you need the link from an em...
Open UK Rail Data: The ORR’s Transparency Conference 15 Dec 2012 | 04:20 am
On Monday I attended a transparency conference run by the Office of Rail Regulation. Two years ago I wouldn’t have dreamed I’d end up writing that. When National Rail Enquiries shut down their Depart...
