Month: January 2004


  • Bill Gates of Microsoft spoke recently at a conference where he said that spam would be defeated in 2 years. He called for extra user vigilence in tandem with his […]

  • Well as usual there’s always a witty posting on The Reg about something relatively current. This time it’s a take on the outsourcing of jobs (particularly in call centres) to […]

  • Google Bombing

    We all remember that quirky search for “miserable failure” in Google that turned up results of a particular US president but now Google Bombing seems to have become a sport […]

  • CD-Ow!

    Well after much talk in recent months it appears that CD-Wow will have to raise their prices to meet the copyright laws of importing cheaper merchandise from outside Europe. Ah […]

  • Well I said yesterday that I wanted to hear more about the mikerowesoft.com story and indeed there is an update and no less than the MSN site is running the […]

  • Rubbish!

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    Yesterday I returned home from work only to lift from my letter box what I assumed to be junk mail. Indeed I wasn’t too far from the truth. It was […]

  • Big Brother

    The New Scientist is always a good read and yet again it has the goods on a legitimate virus idea by the FBI. Seemingly the FBI want to install Trojan […]

  • Well the men from MS are at it again, this time they appear to be taking action against a 17 year old Canadian whose personal domain name may be causing […]

  • Yes, I Read

    I have noticed this little idea on Rob O’Connor’s Weblog for a while now and I think it’s pretty neat. He’s got a little image of the book that he’s […]

  • Well, in the news today Michael Jackson is due in court, Dubliners are 17% better off than the rest of Ireland, Mary Harney suffers an embarrassing resistance from her department […]