Articles like this are great. Somebody has made a mistake but doesn’t want to tell anyone about it and then the story leaks without all the details making the whole fiasco sound really bad. Anyway the basic story is that NTL are calling upon all phone customers to disconnect their NTL service due to possible… Read More »The Danger of Phones
Sadly today marks the passing of a great comic, Rodney Dangerfield. Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but as an appreciator of one-liner genius he’s way up there in my opinion. Many movies, shows and guest appearances decorate his career. Including an appearance on The Simpsons as Mr. Burns’ long lost son Larry. I leave… Read More »Alas Poor Rodney
Interesting snippet about how girls are often mistaken to be non-geeks when the opposite is frequently true. I personally wouldn’t classify it as a revelation given that manufacturers have in the past, released items such as a pink iPod mini. Of course only considering typical tastes here but perhaps this is evidence enough that someone… Read More »Girls Dig Gadgets!
No it’s not related to Popeye but spinach power may soon be available to help power traditional battery devices such as mobile phones and laptops. Thanks to Sven for the link. A team of researchers at MIT have conducted investigations into using spinach-based cells as power cells for devices; using the biological network of the… Read More »Spinach Power
Just read this little snippet and accompanying photo on Mícheál’s weblog. It’s amazing, funny and frightening to think that people actually thought this back in 1954. When did the whole miniturisation thing become a sign of progress? At least the machine was to be programmed in Fortran so we can identify that the engineers were… Read More »Modern Computing as told by 1954
It’s good to know that on this day that I celebrate the passing of one year and the start of another (i.e. my birthday) that the status quo of common sense is still holding strong. Noteworthy events of the early morning include Presidents dismissing the findings of their intelligence agencies. Former singer Cat Stevens refused… Read More »On This Day…
It appears a recent attack on Irish internet consumers, by some deviant software offerings, is set to bring about the biggest clamp down on telecoms that the country has ever seen. Users of the internet have been targeted with dialler software that changes their internet connection settings causing them to “dial-up” through a premium call… Read More »The Number You Have Dialled is Not in Service…
No it’s not the cost of moving house but rather the cost of moving job location or to be more accurate the cost of moving your employees. This debate of decentralisation has been raging for some time now and it still fails to make any sense to me as to why the civil servants even… Read More »The Cost of Moving
Back posting again after a brief rest from catching up with all the happenings in the world. Finally, nanotechnology is coming into play in the medical world (for reasons other than super-humans anyway). Scientists researching cancer fighting are planning to use nanotechnology to help tackle the disease. Could be a huge breakthrough in fighting one… Read More »Nanobots for President!