Another detailed, but succinct (if that’s not an oxymoron), post by John Gruber. This time about apple’s decision to release ‘Boot Camp’ (which lets you run Windows on a new Intel mac), well worth reading if you are into technology: Daring Fireball: Windows: The New Classic
Posted on Friday 7th April 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged internet, mac OS X, technology, Windows, with no comments.
One big problem with the current trend of device convergence is that if that one device fails, then so do all of your devices! This means that device failure has a bigger impact, and this impact will increase with the number of functions the device replaces.
Two examples of this. Firstly, I use my phone [...]
Posted on Saturday 18th March 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged internet, mac OS X, Music, technology, TV, with one comment.
Fancy a game of Pong, with a difference, this one has more than two players! In Massively Multiplayer Pong you are but one of a collection of people deciding where to move the paddle. Surprisingly the score is about equal, currently at 2278 to 2348. Why not join in with the 49 others currently playing.
Posted on Sunday 26th February 2006 in Blog tagged games, humour, internet, Links, with no comments.
Those crazy folk over at Google have updated the satellite imagery around Torino for the winter games, and you can pan down the actual courses on your own computer with Google Earth. How impressive is that, and who would have predicted that 10 years ago. A kmz place file for the venues is available [...]
Posted on Saturday 11th February 2006 in Blog tagged internet, Links, mapping, technology, with no comments.
A new service from the creators of the fantastic Wordpress is the Akismet comment spam system. Luckily I don’t suffer from that much spam, but I am trying this to see if it is much more effective than other techniques (and less intrusive than moderating every comment).
PS I also upgraded to WP two point oh, [...]
Posted on Thursday 5th January 2006 in Blog tagged internet, spam, website, WordPress, with no comments.
