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Thinking about mobiles…

Over the past number of days I have been doing a lot of thinking about mobile phones. It comes on the back of having left my beloved 8210 in London last week after my meeting and now I anxiously await its postage back to me; so as is normal I fear for its safety. In… Read More »Thinking about mobiles…

WiFi – the golden fleece

Well, the meeting is still ongoing so it’s time for a brief entry over the tea break. 🙂 Just picked this article off CNN.com about the raving marketplace that is WiFi provisioning. This follows up on a story I was listening to last night on BBC World with respect to local bars in the US… Read More »WiFi – the golden fleece

Semantic Webs

Currently in London at a project meeting but I managed to catch an interesting interview on BBC World this morning with Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the web) regarding his views on a semantic internet. The ideas are gaining acceptance and could lead to a new range of internet tools targeting the discovery needs of… Read More »Semantic Webs

Vlogging?

Q. What’s better than capturing the authors mood by text in a log? A. Capture the author in the log! Here’s an article from webreference about the idea of Video Logging or Vlogging. Personally I can’t see myself taking this up too soon with the current state of broadband access in this country but worth… Read More »Vlogging?

Why does the world hate nerds?

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This is an interesting little essay that I picked up on reference from the weblog of Diane Duane whom I found through GeoURL as being my closest neighbour in cyberspace whom I did not know. Interesting how these things come about. Anyway, the essay is over personalised but still makes some interesting points about the… Read More »Why does the world hate nerds?

Sendmail exposed

Just picked this off CNN. Sendmail, the world’s favourite e-mail server, suddenly has a huge gaping hole in it. Advice direct from Sendmail Inc is to either upgrade or patch immediately. It doesn’t look as though the problem has been exploited yet but better not to take the risk… CNN.com – Security flaw puts e-mail… Read More »Sendmail exposed

Does Saddam Google?

A very humourous article from CNN dated 03/03/2003 predicting a fierce cyber war in the current environment. As foolish as some of the concepts used are, it’s still very easy to see that something as simple as Google could become a war tool for either side.

WiFi for home?

Well as my new house gradually nears completion I am looking around at how best to serve my techno needs. I want to transform it into a WiFi hotspot but I am only starting to learn more about this technology at the moment. This seems to be a nice enough piece of kit and it… Read More »WiFi for home?

MS Spying again

An interesting link just passed onto me from Andrew Betson regarding the content passed to Microsoft during a Windows Update. Seemingly they pass on details of non-Microsoft products too… The Register