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I keep track of the updates of the Ofwat since since I wrote a post about the drought in London (in Spanish la lluvia en Londres no evita la sequía).

I am curious about the new figures of leakage of water in London. If the investment in replacing the distribution system is effective they must go down from previous annual records.

Unfortunately the section of the web site that is supposed to link to the reports of the regulator failed to produce any link of substance in the last 12 months.

News broke today in a few channels about the coalition government appointing David Gray, former networks head for Ofgem as the auditor of Ofwat and its “value for money”/

The lobby, Water UK, was quick to respond, which Acuteaccent translates here to plain English: “We want to make yet more money, just do not drag this review, investors hate uncertainty”.

Philippe Rieffel of the Geospatial Learning @ Primary School project shows a XO-1_Monty laptop.

I took the picture at the State Of The Map conference in Girona, in Spain in July.

The project Geospatial Learning @ Primary School provides a few children with laptop to learn geographical skills, and to contribute to the project Open Street Map in the process.

The OPLC (A XO laptop for every child) project is alive and well. For instance Rwanda will deploy further 100,000 XO laptops until December 2010.

You don’t need to enter the extension of a popular domain on the URL bar on Firefox, just the domain name.

That is, if your broadband provider is not Virgin Media. If it is, then your browser will redirect to a URL like http://advancedsearch.virginmedia.com/assist.php?url=yourdomainname

I seems to be powered by Yahoo. It’s just a search results page. I think they called it advanced error. Well, an error it is, but quite a dumb one. If you enter ‘virginmedia’, the engine does not find… its own customer, Virgin Media.

You may spare yourself all that adverstising by disabling the feature at https://my.virginmedia.com/advancederrorsearch/settings