Saltbar

Gold-plated service

Saltbar — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:18:17 +0000

At the behest of Alison Byran of G.O.D. Apologies for the lengthy break away from blogging. Things have been mad at work, plus an impending new addition to our new family, plus sustained efforts throughout Autumn to renovate the 2nd half of our house in readiness for the new addition. Oh well, life happened! I started [...]

Tripetalk

Saltbar — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:36:19 +0000

This is going to be a short vent. This afternoon, after a long period of absent, I find myself calling Tax Credit Office via Typetalk on my minicom (picture me using my thumb to wipe the dust off the single line screen) After a 10 mins wait in the telephone queue, a Tax Credits advisor popped up [...]

DeafBlind Communicator

Saltbar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:36:15 +0000

Extracted from Pattaya People (Thailand newspaper) An exciting new portable device for deaf-blind people allows them to have face-to-face conversations, make phone calls using a text relay service and communicate by SMS. The Deaf-Blind Communicator (DBC) consists of a Braille note-taker linked by Bluetooth to a mobile phone. Using the device, a deaf-blind person can have real [...]