Rebirth in VeniceAn awful lot is going on in the

Rebirth in Venice

An awful lot is going on in the P2P TV space at the moment, and a Palladium Club mega-uber value reader pointed me towards this blog post from Venice Project team member Sylvain Wallez, who runs through a nice description of some of the features. I find it intriguing that he mentions using Jabber to communicate with friends - why not Skype? Can't wait to try it out, but alas, my application to join the beta a couple of months back has yet to be approved - nobody loves me. If you have an invite and are feeling the Christmas spirit, send it along and I will be eternally grateful!

UPDATE: Within an hour of posting this, I received my long-expected invitation to the beta. Coincidence, or is somewhat out there reading?

james.enck@dir.co.uk (James Enck)

Archeological Access Networks

During an archeological search near Moscow at a depth of 10 meters, Russian scientists have found some relics of copper line. By provocation, they concluded publicly that Russian ancestors had a telephone network 1,000 years ago.

The Americans, to compete, decided to do a similar search, but at 20 meters deep. They found some trace of fiber glass. It turned out that it was 2,000 years old. The American scientists concluded that their ancestors deployed a fiber-to-the-home-network for digital communication. And this, a thousand years before the Russians!

One week later, in Salzburg, some Austrian scientists published the following: Following searches in Hallein at a depth of 50 meters, we did not find anything. We conclude that the ancestors of the Celts had a Wifi network more than 5,000 years ago.

Richard