Norwegian ISP won't be blocking Pirate bay

A court in Norway has ruled that although The Pirate Bay is blocked by some ISP’s in six countries already it won’t be blocked by Norwegian ISP Telenor. The entertainment industry has been trying to get Telenor to block the site since February. The court has ruled that it’s better to leave the Norwegian authorities to decide whether ISP’s have to block the site.

The authorities will have to do an evaluation on whether to shut the site down or not. This is normally done by the ISP’s but they don’t have the control. Last year the judges in Denmark were convinced to force ISP Tele 2 to block access to The Pirate Bay but they refused.

The site has been ordered to remove some of its links to material but they say they can’t do this since selling the site in 2006 to a Seychelles-based company called Reservella. So The Pirate Bay is having a hard time at the moment. What bad thing will hit them next?

Argleton makes people Google eyed on Google Earth

Recently people have been going on to Google Maps and Google Earth and finding a town just off the A59 called Argleton. People have been to the place where Google say it is and finding a field. Argleton doesn’t exist and the place name is strangely an anagram of “Not Real G”. But people have found businesses that apparently run there. The person who first noticed this mistake, Mike Nolan said "I grew up in the area and spotted on the map one day that it said 'Argleton'," he says. "But it's just a farmer's field close to the village hall and playing fields. I think a footpath goes across the field, but that's all. The name 'Argleton' is similar to 'Aughton'. Maybe someone made a mistake when keying in the name?".

This was noticed more than a year ago but it has only been noticed by lots of people now. The name Aughton was what Mike thought might be what they had replaced it with but you can still find Aughton on Google Earth and Maps. This remains a mystery to many people but we will have to wait and see what happens next.

Fireworks mark 1000 Days till the Olympics in London

Last night at the BT tower there was a fireworks display to mark one-thousand days till the London 2012 Olympics. They have also had an electronic information band installed that will countdown the opening ceremony. The enormous band is round the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh floors. BT is a sponsor for the games and the event was shown on BBC One’s The National Lottery Draw Show. Dame Kelly Holmes had the job of pressing the button to set off the whole display.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012 said: “Reaching 1,000 days to go gives us an opportunity to celebrate.” In the last couple of days there has also been the launch of the first Corgi London 2012 toy and a badge to mark the occasion which are both on sale a Hamley’s toy store. The launch of the BT Road to 2012 Project was on Friday. The project is some portraits of the people who play a role in London 2012 that will be going on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The Next event like this will be on December 3^rd which will be one-thousand days till the Paralympic Games. I will hopefully be reporting on that.