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The page you have landed upon is an example of a WORDPRESS blog pretty much out of the box. At Odyssey  we only aspire to equality of access to the new media. If the prospect of hosting and setting up your own blog seems daunting Odyssey can halp.

Odyssey provides support and web development  for people and small businesses at affordable prices. We currently host and support two political/opinion  blogs and we can help you. Commercially we host and support three small businesses and we could help yours.

A Hung Energy policy

A Rather clunky presentation but this design of rotor shines a light into the future. We live on an island, yet they plan to build 14 Nuclear Power Stations and we sit on five hundred years worth of coal power. Think again politicians and scientist, commission wind turbines not windmills, look at more efficient storage of that wind energy and stop deluding yourselves about the dangers of nuclear power.

The TOY  demo shows it better here

An Odyssey roundup

A Rube Goldberg Machine is an overly complicated machine that performs a simple task …….more here March 2010 saw a fine example of such a machine in the form of a Viral Pop Video which received awesome amounts of traffic in a very short period of time.  An interview with one of the creators can be found here at the great BOL

BOB the big old battery in Texas, however primitive, it signposts the future with ever increasing and ever more efficient energy  storage. Stored energy is the keyword for the new decade, Hybrid and energy converters are the new technology, E=mc2 equates to a lot of energy in our universe yet we are in the midst of an energy crisis, I think not…….the race is on, a new century a new technology.

Fantastic clever and thought provoking Video HERE

For the round up, the “Best Election Video” so far is here, nothing viral yet but I will keep you posted, and lest we not forget Maggie:

G Speak the new OS?

Looks like an aerobics workout to me, but stunning and closer to Zen than I ever dreamed possible

Worse than a pedophile

The Petition is HERE

Genius

Genius refers to a person, a body of work, or a singular achievement of surpassing excellence. The source is here

President of the internet says: IE is a piece of crap

From Twit edition number 204 “tastes like dirt”

For those of you who don’t know, TWIT(This Week In Technology),  is a weekly podcast hosted by Leo Laporte. The podcast has an awesome array of movers and shakers from the world of  IT and web commerce .
In the posted  clip along with Leo, are Kevin Rose and Dwight Silverman who explain in clear concise English the folly of using Internet Explorer.

Being in the front line to a bemused public who don’t understand why this cranky old geek is telling them that Microsoft’s “jack of all trades and master of none approach” is part of the reason that they are paying me to dig them out of the mess they now find themselves in, so if you don’t believe me, Listen to the experts and download firefox.

Bill Gates is great, Microsoft is not.

New Servers

linuxorgAs existing partners of Odyssey Consulting will be aware the migration to Linux servers is now complete. Odyssey will only be supporting Linux  servers for the next two years.

The main website and control panel are still under development but soon to be deployed where you will have greater control over your domain and web presence.

In the interim, for  billing and technical support and new sales you can either contact Odyssey  on +44 01414161960
OR
email

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers and they are reporting the statistics pictured below.  Odyssey Consulting is ahead of the curve. Linux servers with Apache for cost effective web hosting.  (click image to enlarge)

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A New Look……keep checking back

Odyssey Consulting is evolving