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From http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/29/leaked-uk-govt-doc-r.html attached is the leaked UK gov doc... Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget -- note the call to action there. We've got a sensitive government document revealing the British government's plan to trick us into a database state and we need as many copies as possible, as quickly as possible! If you mirror this document, please add a link to it in the comments for the post. UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about "coercing" its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The 'ID card' is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating what NO2ID calls 'the database state'.

Google’s Android mobile OS is an interesting new technology that will open up the mobile space in 2008. Bill Sobel blogged about the platform in conjunction with our Jan 17th panel “Wireless, Wimax, Mobile and Beyond: A Look at the Future Communications”. Android will enable a multitude of new mobile applications. Along with the iPhone’s soon [...]

Bill Sobel, founder of NY:MIEG (New York: Media Information Exchange Group), has organized a very exciting and informative event on looking at where we are and where we are going with wireless communications technologies. The event, Wireless, Wimax, Mobile and Beyond: A Look at the Future of Communications, will take place on January 17 at [...]

Please help spread the word! The New America Foundation, CUWiN Foundation, the AAAS Science and Human Rights Program, and the Acorn Active Media Foundation will be hosting the annual International Summit for Community Wireless Networks in Washington, DC on May 28-30, 2008. More information will be forthcoming at wirelesssummit.org in coming weeks. Hosted by the world’s largest [...]

Here at Bristol Wireless, with most of us being advocates of bah-humbuggery as well as Linux and open source, we’ve been doing our utmost to avoid too much contact with the world of midwinter celebrations (e.g. Christmas, Hannukah, solstice, etc.*). However, we did crack a bit yesterday afternoon, succumbing to mulled cider and nibbles in [...]

On December 12, 2007, I gave the following testimony to the New York City Council Broadband Advisory Committee. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Broadband Advisory Committee and Members and Staff of the New York City Council, I would like to thank you for inviting me here today to provide my testimony and provide what I hope [...]

NYCwireless is joining a bunch of other NYC-based Technology organizations in supporting the 2007 NYC Technology Sector Holiday Social. Keep the evening of Thursday, December 13th, 2007 open for FREE drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Details and RSVP: http://www.orgcom.info/Holiday Everyone is invited-open source or closed- CTO or junior admin-personal business or Fortune 500. Our mission is to [...]

Here at Bristol Wireless we do as much as we can to re-use and extend the working life of old computer hardware. Through our Byteback partnership We are able to sell reconditioned machines for just £50. We recognise that sometimes it is appropriate to purchase new hardware, and when new purchases are made it is worth considering [...]

News arrives from Bristol City Council that a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi network has been installed to give partial Wi-Fi coverage of The Council House on College Green. The network will allow anyone attending a meeting or event in the building’s committee rooms, Council Chamber and Conference Hall to call up agendas, reports and other background materials on [...]

On Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 from 1-4pm, the NYC Broadband Advisory Committee will be holding a meeting at the Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall, 120 Claremont Avenue at 122 Street, New York, NY 10027 If you live or work in Manhattan, you should attend this meeting. NYCwireless will be there, representing our work building [...]

On 29th November 2007 we will be running a beginners’ training course from 7pm - 9pm at St. Werburghs Community Centre, Horley Road, St. Werburghs. The course will cover logging in and out, the desktop, the file system, word processing, setting up and using web based email and surfing the World Wide Web. Bristol Wireless [...]

Author’s note: The following is an article I’ve written for an Easton newsletter being set up in the new year. I’ve posted it here because I mention Bristol Wireless and their contribution to recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment towards the end. The Problem More than a million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) [...]

Wow… this is big news. CBS is using its outdoor billboards to broadcast out a ubiquitous free Wi-Fi network in midtown Manhattan. I gave a quote to Silicon Alley Insider: Its great to see that free, public Wi-Fi is becoming more available in New York City. CBS’s program is an innovative way to get more free internet [...]

The open internet access suite at the Chelsea Inn in Easton, provided and managed by Bristol Wireless, has been completely overhauled. The addition of an extra station brings the total to three now, all of which are newer-style Compaq thin clients providing access to the server upstairs via LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). [...]

On Tuesday Bristol Wireless volunteer and Nixcom employee Lloyd Cohen installed an omni-directional antenna on the roof of The Cube Microplex cinema in Kingsdown. The AP is to be used for the high-quality infrastructure-level connection of strategic points around the adjoining Dove St. flats, from which free open access wireless coverage will be provided to [...]

Download Interview with Tim EricksonOn Tuesday 6th November, Bristol Wireless received a visit from Tim Erickson of E-Democracy.org, who have been helping encourage participation in the democratic process since 1994. We first me Tim on his initial visit to Bristol 2 years ago and were responsible for introducing him to West Country cider. Tim [...]

So its a stupid popularity contest, but its a good idea none-the-less. If you think I do good work with NYCwireless, I’d love it if you would vote/nominate me and leave comments. And don’t forget to vote for other Alley folks too! Silicon Alley 100 – Dana Spiegel Bookmark:

Since its inception as a community wireless networking project, Bristol Wireless’ range of activities has expanded at a rapid rate. One of the newer lines of work - although the idea was first mooted a few years ago - is the development of our own Bristol Wireless Debian-based Linux distribution. Ben Green has today announced [...]

Refuting the channel 4 documentary "Great Global Warming Swindle" ... A great analysis that pulls to pieces the poor science from Channel 4 The refutation of the sunspot theory is especially worth noting.

Watch and Act!.. great argument and shows the climate change deniers for the misanthropes they are.