The Cambridge CAMRA Beer Festival has arrived in town again.

An annual event in Cambridge, the Beer Festival features hundreds of brews from all over the UK and Europe. The key message is that the best beer is “Real Ale”; not stuffed with preservatives and artificially carbonated but the genuine, hand-crafted article. (more…)

I stayed at the Yotel in Heathrow Terminal 4 the other day. I had an 11am flight to the US, and decided that instead of a 6am start from Cambridge, it made much more sense to stay literally 50m away from the British Airways checkin desk. This made me an accidental, but much appreciated, beneficiary of the T5 shambles – BA are keeping a lot of their long-haul flights in T4 until the new terminal has properly bedded down. (more…)

I’ve just been taking a look at Device Atlas, which in its own words is the “world’s most comprehensive database of mobile device information”. I had high hopes, but unfortunately it appears to be rehash of the kind of information which is readily available, without anything more useful. I appreciate that this database is not designed for my sole delectation, but I surely can’t be alone in wanting to get a list of devices running S60 FP1 which have a camera? Not only does the Device Atlas apparently not allow any sort of search, it doesn’t tell me what operating system a phone runs, what JSRs it has, or allow any kind of user commenting (e.g. “HTTPS is broken on this device”).

My favourite part of the site is in the FAQ, where it says “Can I have a job? Yes, we’re hiring world class staff for the DeviceAtlas project. Call us.” Errr, call who? There’s no phone number. Click on “Contact” on the nav bar at the bottom of the screen. Still no phone number. I presume you’re supposed to call dotMobi (one more click away) rather than Device Atlas, but that’s far from clear. Also in the FAQ, we read that “We intend this to be the single largest, most comprehensive, and accurate device database on the planet”. A worthy goal – but Device Atlas has a long way to go to reach it.