Daily Archives: November 29, 2023

Two Rails Local Network fbb can manage “karta” (map) and “trafik” (traffic) and can guess that “spar” might be train or rail. But “spar” is the name of a chain of convenience stores … … which fbb always thought was a play on the words for cheap and pine tree! And rail in Swedish is “jarnwag” (iron road, surely) whilst…

Big Brother meets Big Data It’s a well known maxim in the tech industry that if you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product. We get to use incredible services like Gmail, Facebook and Twitter1 for free – and in return, the big tech firms sell access to our eyeballs to advertisers2. But this isn’t always the case. Sometimes, even…