Apple’s next version of OSX, codenamed Leopard, was originally scheduled for release in mid-June. Now it is incurring a four month delay with the blame landing on the doorstep of the iPhone development. Personally I am very upset by this. I am on the verge of buying a new Mac might have waited until June… Read More »Leopard Changes Spots
For a while now I’ve been using the tags feature of MovableType which those in the know will be aware is completely useless outside of your own blog. It’s a nice feature to tag your entries and allow others to search within your tag base but serves no purpose at all for search engines such… Read More »Technorati Tags
Thanks to Brian W for the link. Steorn, that mystical Irish company with the free energy from magnets technology are set to make an announcement tomorrow, Friday 13th. This update is with respect to the independent review process of their technology. What will come from this announcement, I can only sit and wonder. The marketing… Read More »Steorn Update Tomorrow
Surprise, surprise. After the last 12 months of bullet dodging regarding the so-called Manchester payments, the government is pushing a new bill that will triple the current amount of personal “gifts” that politicians do not have to declare. In my opinion, if you put yourself in the public eye and you want public respect and… Read More »New Bill to Triple Political Donations
I confess that before reading Bernie’s blog this morning, I had never heard of Kurt Vonnegut, recently deceased. However, upon reading some of the quotes provided, I wish I had and will most likely rectify the situation as soon as I can track down his material. While I cannot yet claim any impact of his… Read More »Kurt Vonnegut
A perfect example of trying to police the content of the interweb’s social sites/blogs. Depending on the person taking exception, the harassed may become the harasser. This case involves a high school in the US where students, at home and on their own computers, made a fake my space profile for their headmaster and posted… Read More »A fitting example…
For a little while now since the Kathy Sierra incident, the blogosphere has been kicking around the notion of a blogger’s code of conduct. Frankly when I first heard the idea I was gobsmacked that people who make their living/popularity from free speech and all things anarchical should even toy with such an idea. I’ve… Read More »Blogger Code of Conduct
The world’s latest space tourist, Charles Simonyi, a Microsoft Word developer, has just connected with the international space station. This got me thinking: If I had that kind of money what would I do? Well first off I won’t even get onto a commercial airliner due to an acute fear of flying so space travel… Read More »Spaced out Word Man