By John | September 30, 2007
No, the title’s not mine. It comes from Don Reisinger, writing at CNET news.com.
I get asked by friends occasionally what PC to buy or whether to upgrade their existing PC to Vista. I haven’t bought a Windows PC for over 5 years now and although we do have a old PC in the cellar [...]
By John | September 23, 2007
There was quite a lot of publicity earlier this year, when Apple struck a deal with EMI to sell their entire music collection without DRM (copy protection: digital rights management) on iTunes. And I have mentioned a couple of times, that you can buy albums without DRM from magnatune at a price which you choose. [...]
By John | September 22, 2007
Boston police have overreacted again (remember the advertising campaign for the Cartoon Network that caused chaos in Boston in January?) and arrested a student for wearing a circuit board on her sweatshirt at Boston’s Logan Airport. Whether you regard the charges as “paranoid” or think that the student showed “a total disregard to understand the [...]
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By John | September 21, 2007
Silly signs sent in to the BBC. See the rest by clicking on the picture above.
By John | September 21, 2007
The BBC reports:
The UK has built up a stockpile of 100 tonnes of plutonium – enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs, according to a Royal Society report.
Well, that should be enough for any conceivable (or inconceivable) purpose, when you consider that just over 6kg of plutonium was used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. I [...]
By John | September 17, 2007
The Hydroptère, which reached a speed of 47,2 knots in January this year. The music is Juno Reactor VS. Don Davis by Navras, which is on the soundtrack CD Matrix Revolutions.
(via Think or Thwim)
By John | September 17, 2007
For the last few weeks I have being using a couple of extensions to the “Services” menu which is available for all applications in Mac OS X:
CalcService (download link)
WordService (download link)
Both applications are from Devon Technologies, whose DevonThink I also use to index and find documents on the Mac.
CalcService allows you to type a formula [...]
By John | September 16, 2007
The front page in today’s Observer:
‘Housing boom over’ as UK bank chaos grows
Britain’s house price growth will be halved next year as the global financial crisis exacerbates the impact of rising mortgage rates, according to Nationwide, the biggest mortgage lender.
After the dramatic bail-out of high street bank Northern Rock underlined the impact of the American [...]
By John | September 10, 2007
If you’re thinking of buying an iPod nano, The first comprehensive review that I have seen is on AppleInsider.
By John | September 10, 2007
From the Manchester Evening News a couple of days ago:
A VIOLENT thug attacking a shopkeeper never expected to come face-to-face with a superhero.
But as Gerard Smith went `berserk’ in a Manchester newsagents, passer-by Kevin Godin-Prior lifted his jumper to reveal a Spiderman costume and told him: “You don’t know who you’re dealing with.”…
