Call SignSeptember 2000

COMPUTER CHINCHAT

In July, a friend asked whether I'd be interested in knocking together a quick web site to promote his intended charitable trip to China. Now I consider myself to be a charitable person, well sometimes at least, but when someone says "knock together a quick web site", I get worried.
His intention is to travel together with his friend from London to China and back by motorbike, publicising his journey by visiting Internet Cafes en-route sending me his travel log and images. Check out http://www.orientexpress.ws to view his journey, but please bear in mind it is a freebie and won't be an all-singing and all-dancing web site, but it is at least functional.

Free Internet Calls???
Did anyone join Lineone.net and take advantage of their offer that supplies free Internet calls from Quip? There was a massive advertising campaign with http://www.Quip.co.uk pushing their free Internet calls service.
Like a mug I fell for it and sent my Ł20 to obtain their box that plugs into my BT phoneline. That was over three months ago, I've now given up using both my Lineone dial-up together with the Ł20 box. In my opinion, it was a total rip-off which I also told their help-line, who were very polite but never seemed to be able to correct my problems even when I told them exactly what the problem was at their end.
Ah, well, never mind, their 'scam' has since been publicised in the national press and they've agreed that they never anticipated the demand for free calls.

Can you smell something there? Don't they call it bull****!
So it seems the music industry are combining their efforts to close down Napster's web site, as mentioned in my last article. For those that missed it, Napster is a web site and application that joins thousands of browsers over the Internet, providing the ability to swap audio files. The recent court case in the United States went in favour of the music industry and Napster was told that their site must close down. They are appealing and we wait with baited breath because this could have far reaching implications for the freedom of transmitting data over the net.
But in the meantime, get online at either http://www.napster.com or http://www.scour.com whilst it lasts.

My Ł1,000,000 Earning Web Site!
My million pound earning web site is still in the prototyping phase. Basically we're just too busy earning a living to spare the time to actually sit down and develop the site, but we're still optimistic...
Just a quick mention to let you know that my discussion lists, discuss@taxicab.co.uk and taxicab@taxicab.co.uk have both shut down, although theknowledge@taxicab.co.uk is still alive for those on The Knowledge. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused and I'll keep you informed if someone else decides to take on the responsibly of providing free, uncensored debate for our trade (see Editorial).

C Ya next month... Vince Chin