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InternetCity 125

After a recent article about Virgin deploying WiFi on their trains in the UK I was very surprised to find that ye olde GNER network already had it installed. Blogging from Coach B of the Edinburgh to Peterbrough service. All in all not too bad, apart from the price of GBP 2.95 for 30 minutes (plus 5 minutes free). They add the free minutes to allow for the predicted degradation of speed. Having flown Easy Jet from Luton to Edinburgh I thought I would take the train back. For close travel dates the train was actually have price, plus I can take liquid on board and as my luggage as I want (Easy Jet let you have one piece and then every bag after that is GBP 10). Total travel time, if you include the drive to the airport and the mandatory wait at the terminal, means the journey is about the same. Anyway don't want to sound like a "spotter" so on to the point. At my seat I have power to compensate the poor battery on my company laptop :( and the ability to walk around

Do you Yahoo! Beta?....I do now

Just got my invite to Yahoo! Mail Beta. It's got some nice new usability features that I welcome in my email client. Preview Pane for advance reading Drag and Drop support for organizing your mail into your folders (a big thumbs up for someone like me that likes to compartmentalize my mail) Multi non-contiguous select using CTRL+Click Multi coniguous select using SHIFT+Click 3 and 4 are what we are used to in spreadsheet tools so no steep learning curve there. I like to general feel of the new interface, it's more akin to a traditional email client on your PC (Outlook Express et al) than the online mail readers. I am a very big user of Gmail, I would welcome some development in this direction from the Google Dome.