This is interesting...

Introducing the BT FON Community, Wi-Fi everywhere in the U.K. - FON and BT have partnered to create the BT FON Community to cover the entire U.K. with hundreds of thousands of BT FON hotspots.

You already know who we are, the world’s largest Wi-Fi Community, and BT is one of the leading broadband providers in the world, and the birth of our BT FON Community means something uniquely special for broadband users in the U.K. and all over the world.

We have integrated FON in BT and now more than more than 3 million Total Broadband customers are invited to join the enormous global community of people sharing their WiFi.

The fact that a market leader like BT supports FON’s revolutionary model for a massive Wi-Fi community built for and by the people marks a bold step in the communications industry.

Every person in the UK who agrees to share a small portion of their home broadband connection will be able to share the connection of any other member. Anyone joining in will be able to use those FON hotspots across the world and all the new BT FON hotspots free of charge.

From the very beginning, all of you, Foneros, believed in the concept of sharing and in people’s ability to build something important that would benefit everyone. BT is one of the most important telcos and ISPs in the world, so with BT FON those beliefs have proved to be well-founded!

And of course, the best news for all your Foneros around the world is that you can connect to the new BT FON Community Wi-Fi hotspots for FREE!

Thanks to all of you, and welcome to the U.K.! [Fon]

Just checked the URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer ahead of the announced launch date of tomorrow. It redirected me to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/. I've registered but not received my confirmation email yet.

Thanks to everyone that let me know this site was offline last week. Problems with my network registrar's migration to a new supplier meant that garan.org was de-registered. It took them a week to get it back. Not impressed but it could have been worse if it had been one of my customers rather than myself.

There's a new Drupal module called .mobi. It allows folk to alias a .mobi site to their regular site and have a specially formatted version of the site suitable for small browsers normally found in pdas and phones.

The site is http://garan.mobi/

These days I spend most of my time working on machines running XP that have more than one monitor hooked upto them. XP's support for multiple monitors is pretty good apart from one little niggle. You only get a toolbar on the primary window. To get around this I use a piece of software called Ultramon. It adds a toolbar per window and little buttons to the tops of windows that allow you to switch them across to other screens easily. There are more functions in Ultramon that I don't use like screen saver and wallpaper functions but I don't need them.

I've installed Ultramon on my Vista setup at home and whilst the toolbars work, they often get confused. Also the 'swap window' buttons don't display (they are there but you can't see them, especially if you are running the Aero interface).

Realsoft, the company behind Ultramon have come out with a beta release that has more Vista support. Something else to fiddle with :)

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/relnotes/3.0.0.asp