Archive for August 2005
PC Security 31 Aug 2005
It seems like barely a week goes by without a story about computers being hacked, a virus being spread or another critical flaw being found in Windows means you need to download a patch. I’ve been running my main machine for the better part of two years and spend a lot more time online [...]
Technology News 29 Aug 2005
The BBC technology pages had a few interesting stories over the weekend:
First up was news that the BBC intends to simulcast (simulataneous broadcast) programmes on BBC 1 and 2 on the internet and TV. They also aim to make clips available for mobile phones. They’re also aiming to debut more shows on the [...]
Chinese Fire Drill 27 Aug 2005
I was reading an interview of James Howard Kunstler over at The Morning News (which was far less interesting than I anticipated) when I came across a phrase that sounded vaguely familiar, and to which I didn’t know the exat mean of, so I went to look it up.
The phrase was Chinese fire drill. [...]
Googlify 25 Aug 2005
Google, obviously best known for their search engine, have just launched yet another service: Google Talk. It’s now fairly obvious they’re out to take on Microsoft on its own ground. The recent update to the Google Desktop Search (beta 2), pushes their impressive home search software’s capabilities even further, providing a raft of [...]
WS_FTP 23 Aug 2005
One of the benefits to winning the .net Readers Site of the Month award (check it out) for List Books last month (you notice how casually I dropped that in), was a free copy of WS_FTP Pro 2006. Now, I’ve never bought a copy of FTP software, prefering to use free clients instead, which [...]
A Few Things 21 Aug 2005
I was reading the BBC’s 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week entry in the magazine section when a couple of them caught my eye.
Skip past the bit about someone registering a patent for a colonic gas (fart) -powered toy missle launcher and assembly and the mention is using urine as a stain [...]
Trailer Trash 19 Aug 2005
I gave up buying singles a long time ago, it seemed pointless. £4 on a CD with, maybe, four tracks on it, or £9.99 on a CD with a full album? There wasn’t really much of a contest. Equally though, I was loath to payout for an entire album of an artist [...]
Clean-up Costs 17 Aug 2005
There was a story on the BBC last week about the proposed costs of shutting down and cleaning up the UK’s nuclear power stations. The story was the result of the first report by the relatively new (setup in April 2005) Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) who’s main job is ‘to take strategic responsibility for [...]
Power-Hungry PCs 15 Aug 2005
I’ve been meaning to post about this for some time. The company I work for encourages us to leave our PCs on overnight (for anti-virus updates I was told). I at least switch my monitor off (and I reboot my machine as I know they need a good clear out regularly for optimum [...]
Chav Olympics 13 Aug 2005
A friend of mine was wandering through the site afresh to check out the new design and found a link to my page on fainting goats, he emailed me to tell me what a weird thing it was to have, and I explained how I find weird stuff like that really interesting when he replied [...]