At the behest of Alison Byran of G.O.D.
Apologies for the lengthy break away from blogging. Things have been mad at work, plus an impending new addition to our new family, plus sustained efforts throughout Autumn to renovate the 2nd half of our house in readiness for the new addition. Oh well, life happened!
I started [...]

This is going to be a short vent.
This afternoon, after a long period of absent, I find myself calling Tax Credit Office via Typetalk on my minicom (picture me using my thumb to wipe the dust off the single line screen)
After a 10 mins wait in the telephone queue, a Tax Credits advisor popped up [...]

Extracted from Pattaya People (Thailand newspaper)
An exciting new portable device for deaf-blind people allows them to have face-to-face conversations, make phone calls using a text relay service and communicate by SMS.
The Deaf-Blind Communicator (DBC) consists of a Braille note-taker linked by Bluetooth to a mobile phone. Using the device, a deaf-blind person can have real [...]

London, England – The UK’s Teletext analog TV text service is to close next year – two years ahead of schedule, leaving large parts of the UK population without subtitling for the hard of hearing.
Associated Newspapers, which runs the service for the ITV, C4 and Five channels, had originally planned to shut the service down [...]

This landed in my inbox this morning.
British Sign Language Trainer
The marketing blurb goes like this:
Did you ever want to learn sign language?
Here is your chance to learn how to spell words in sign language. All 26 signs corresponding to the characters of the alphabet are displayed on the screen as buttons.
The buttons are in alphabetical [...]