A Government announcement last week (Thursday 29 September 2011) to consult on raising the UK's motorway speed limit from 70mph to 80mph had various people revving their metaphorical engines. Radio 5 Live coverage included car veteran Quentin ... (more)
When we moved to North Walsham, the road we live on was technically de-restricted (ie, National Speed Limit). The road starts out at 30mph and is as quite wide and straight. For a hundred or so yards before it gets to us it's a single-width ... (more)
This set of high-speed descents is compiled by Dave from the University of Leicester. If you know of any others, please let me know! The fastest road in England is also the highest (630m), dropping to around 300m in about two miles. It ... (more)
To see what broadband speed you're getting, go to www.speedtest.net and click "Begin Test" to check your connection's latency (network delay), download and upload speeds. Here are my results from 2011, using the fantastic Zen Internet ... (more)
Apparently the justification for installation of a speed camera will not have to be dependent on death/serious injury having taken place. Councils will be allowed to position them based on safety concerns. A spokesperson from BRAKE spoke ... (more)
The European Commission today announced its intention to bring in mandatory speed-limiting devices for all new cars, from 2022. For road safety advocates this sounds like a great idea in principle, but is it really the correct approach? ... (more)
Google is respected in the web development community for writing simple, usable code and then making it available for re-use by everyone. mod_pagespeed is just an example of this; it's a plugin module for the Apache web server, and is supposed ... (more)
November 2012 ISP rankings for UK and Ireland and UK ISP Speed Index Results Graph. The ISP Speed Index From Netflix. (more)
How ironic. As part of their 'Gadget Show Truth' campaign, the Gadget Show on Five ran a piece this evening (20:45, 12 November 2007) on how badly ISP speed ratings seemed to compare to the 8Mbps we may be able to get (in theory at least). ... (more)
Domestic LPG Prices Liquefied Petroleum Gas (or LPG for short) is the nearest thing a rural household will get to a natural gas supply. As with all oil-based fuels the retail price can fluctuate wildly, so it is important that you thoroughly ... (more)