While I like to think I’m ahead of the curve on Internet trends and memes, in terms of actual adoption – I can be quite the luddite. And so it is that despite the fact that I read a number of blogs (( But I haven’t updated my blogroll to …
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Intel shows off ultraslim concept laptop at IDF Gorgeous design concept – I would love to see something like this become more common – but only if it won’t kill my shoulder. Windows Media Player add-on for Firefox released For those irritating websites that force you to switch to IE …
Link to THQ turns its back on ports, embraces console-specific development I do applaud THQ’s decision to focus on really pushing a game to the limit by tweaking it very specifically for a console – on the other hand, if that means games like Gears of War (not a THQ …
Yes I have succumbed, drunk the kool-aid whatever… Here are a couple of nice video clips that I found quite interesting: glumbert.com – Supermarket 2.0 : If you have ever wanted to know what the world might be like if it was more like the Internet, this video is your …
Well the blog was offline for a long long time – we had some major problems with the hard drives on the weblogs.us servers and the whole setup had to be taken offline. Finally up and running up again now and everything seems to be in place – many many …
For a brief, glorious 15 minutes today, I achieved a version of Geek Nirvana – an Inbox that was completely empty. No, I don’t mean everything unread – I mean empty. Not one single email in it. And of course, 2 minutes later, I had a flurry of email (sigh).
Result = del.icio.us (Yes I know bad pun, but I couldn’t resist!). Old west Mythbusters | Ask MetaFilter So Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame – and one of my favourite shows on TV) is a longtime member of MetaFilter. Running short of ideas for a new episode; he decided to …
WordPress Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2 [via MetaFilter] Apparently, crackers managed to break into a WordPress server and add malicious code to the 2.1.1 build of WordPress that allows for remote PHP execution. This is probably one of the most sophisticated types of security attacks – embedding …
Yes it’s horribly geeky to actually read patch release notes, but then that’s what I am :). Anyway, the latest patch for Supreme Commander had a very interesting note – The copy-protection check that the game had shipped with has now been disabled. Freaking awesome! If there’s one thing that …