Upcoming Lothian Buses changes

Some more changes to the local buses.

It's strange that they are making the 20 circular considering that in July 2003 the took away the last of the circular routes, I wonder what caused their change in mind.

The 35 is being extended to the Airport again, yet they don't seem to be putting it into the Gyle Centre. There is demand for this. One example being two weeks after Lothian Buses took it away the last time a couple came up to me, while waiting at the Gyle to ask which bus went directly to the Gyle.

The 36 is being extended to the Scottish Parliament, I wonder what frequency it is going to be! The last time they had a bus doing a similar route, it was every half hour. So infrequent that you could walk o your connection by the time the bus would turn up if had missed it.

The number 30 has finally been increased to every 10 minutes. I knew it would eventually get increased to this frequency, ever since they took the other services away from Fort Kinnaird.

The 29 is going to have more journeys to Gorebridge in the evening. Will they be going into Tesco Hardengreen?

Evening and Sunday journeys to ASDA the Jewel using the 49 are all very well, but it takes longer than walking there directly from South Edinburgh.

So it seems as though they are not going to extend the 18 from the Royal Infirmary to Fort Kinnaird and ASDA the Jewel. It worries me when they don't say what the changes are explicitly and just say "revised timetable" or "minor timetable changes" as in the past this has meant that there was a decrease in frequency.

Police Force Bans Smoke in Grounds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4426374.stm

It's great to see someone doing the right thing. Hopefully the same
will be done else where.

Dictionary Definition for any word

I've finally found out how to get the dictionary definition for any
word on the page. You use the keyboard short cut control+cmd+D.

Thanks to this page http://www.macosxhints.com/pollbooth.php

Google Base

There seem to be a number of places going on about Google's Base webapp that is meant to be available at http://base.google.com/. I only seem to get as far as the login, then another screen asking to confirm password. I don't know what is going on.

Mind you it is probably still in Beta, just like many of the other things at Google, so they will be just preventing people from accessing, just the same way that they prevent too many people from accessing Google Mail (or out with the UK GMail).

Edinburgh Travel Survey

The City of Edinburgh Council, Lothian Buses and Colin Buchanan are doing the "Edinburgh Travel Survey" to make a model of travel in Edinburgh.

The only reason I found out about the suvey was because I just happened to to be on a 22.

Take a look at http://www.edinburghtravelsurvey.com. To see for yourself what the survey is.

Stop using the Lothian Buses 22

I'm fed up with the very high frequency of the Lothian Buses 22 and 26 in Edinburgh, especially when there are so many other routes that are so low frequency, such as the 15(A), 18, 32, etc.
Maybe if everyone were to stop using the 22 and 26 whenever possible and use alternatives instead, maybe the Lothian Buses management will take notice and redistribute their services.

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/letters.cfm?id=2117062005

AppleInsider: Fifth-gen iPod photo

Take a look at http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1317 , you will notice that it is a FireWire cable in the picture, rather than a USB cable. That is very strange, considering Apple has stopped bundling the FireWire dock connector cable with the iPod for some time now!

Blog Comment Spam

I've been a victim of blog comment spam, so I have decided to turn of word verification.

OpenOffice.org is 5 Today

Today, 13 October 2005 is OpenOffice's fifth birthday today. The project has come a long way in the past five years, with the imminent release of version two, which is currently in release candidate stage.
I'm currently using Eric B's latest build for Mac OS X, which is the best build I have seen so far!
Excellent Work keep it up OpenOffice.org team!

iMac G5 has no internal modem

I've just noticed on the Apple store that Apple now have a USB modem that is required for connecting to the internet. This is probably due to the fact that the majority of people connecting tot he net these days do so via broadband rather than dial-up.

Is Apple starting the beginning of the end for dial-up internet connections by phasing out modems in the iMac? This seems to be the same thing as the loss of the floppy disk drive from the iMacs when they came out in 1998.