On the buses

I only noticed today that wifi is now available on the buses – at least on the latest electric hybrid ones. Financed partly by the Department of Transport.

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Laptop fashions

Laptop fashions

Suddenly there seem to be a lot of people with laptops about.

I am not talking about trendy young professionals, sales reps & others using them for work, or students, but people from much less affluent backgrounds – some I know are not working, though one young man spends a lot of his time looking for a job on his.

This may be down partly to the spread of free wifi, but also I guess to a suddenly thriving second hand market, as many people - the kind who are mainly consumers of the web rather than producers of content or needing the power of a laptop for major pieces of writing or data analysis - turn to tablets or smart phones instead,

A quick Google shows plenty of ads offering laptops for under £100.