Courtesy of xkcd.com the definitive guide to kilobytes and kilobits…

There’s been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000, kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalisation of each.

Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard:

xkcd 394 – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

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A silly video about The Internet people by Snotr was linked on last weeks b3ta newsletter. I recognise about half of them, which makes me think I need to get out more :/

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Simon has just posted an interesting rantpost on why he is not on Facebook, or indeed on any of the multitude of social networking sites that seem to be springing up at the rate of one a week. He cites that fact that networking for the sake of it seems inherently wrong. Why not actually [...]

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The WordPress 2.0.6 release now has support for Safari in the quick-tags script, as well as a number of other bugfixes.

I have gone back and updated my update to the script, which adds some more functionality to this handy script.

So what does it do?
Adds in a number of additional buttons, namely headings H3 and [...]

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Microsoft has finally released the next version of their web browser, Internet Explorer, version 7 (IE 7). The CNet review sums it up nicely…

IE 7 was Microsoft’s one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch [...]

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