First of all I’d like to make it clear that I am in no way attempting a rebuttal of this program, I have my criticisms but I also have my criticisms of the Global warming/Climate change movement too. Not necessarily because I think their conclusions are wrong but because I think the reasoning they used [...]
By Prof. Michael Wesch of Kansas State University.
My laptop was really getting too slow for my needs so it was clearly time to look for a new computer. Considering it was only four years old I decided that it would be a better idea to get a desktop this time around as it would provide me with more upgrade options when the [...]
For some time now there have been stories circulating in the press that due to decreased salinity of the Atlantic Ocean that the Gulf Stream Current that keeps these Islands so unfeasibly mild could eventually stop circulating and plunge the UK into Canadian-like winters. Naturally the truth was closer to; “there was evidence that it [...]
He might have been a Catalan pirate, or a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. He was a religious zealot hoping to bring on the apocalypse. His miscalculation about the size of the earth was an error even the ancient Greeks had not committed. He mistook his location for the East Indies, and his [...]
Today’s post is more of a public information broadcast than an oppinion piece.
I have been hassling BT recently because although I’m on a premium ADSL package and applied for an upgrade from 2Mb to 8Mb some months ago I’m still sitting in the slow lane of the information super-highway. However after scouring the web I [...]
Most people have things they do on the side, sometimes to make a little pocket-money and sometimes simply because they enjoy it. One of the things that I do on the side is build Ecommerce web sites.
I’ve been busy the last week or two in my spare time moving a site that I built for [...]
I am a man who quite likes gadgets, not obsessively so but enough. The sad thing is that they often fall short of their advertised hype and once you have the shiny new toy in your hands there is the sinking feeling of disappointment that the wizzy new features touted by the advertising department was [...]
That would be Linux* of course.
Tristan at ShellyTheRepublican.com explains :
“Like all the greatest American engineering, it’s an example of innovation that makes a growing group of European and Chinese hackers jealous. They hate our lead in computing technology and will stop at nothing until they have control of all of our computers.”
And continues thus :
“And [...]
The BBC have released an interview with British hacker Gary McKinnon who for a number of years managed to access computers at NASA and American Military installations in his search for information relating to the reverse engineering of extra-terrestrial UFO technology in order to make antigravity powered aircraft.
For his crimes he is now facing extradition [...]
Some hardware is now on sale along with a few discs so I suspect it is only a matter of time before the “format war” really starts to kick-in. The truth is that in spite of being a technophile I’m finding it really hard to give a damn about this non-event. So yes, more data [...]
Looking at your site access logs can be quite revealing about what people are looking for when they come across your blog. Any pretension that I was any kind of authority on anything meaningful soon went up in a puff of blue smoke when I recently examined the search engine terms that have linked people [...]
