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So here’s an interesting technical problem

December 2nd, 2012 · 17 Comments

I be travelling. And brought my little notebook computer with me. Which has developed the most amazing fault. Half the keyboard works: the other half doesn’t. It runs in a line, about 45 degree angle, across the board. 3 doesn’t work, four does, n doesn’t work, m does. Anyone any clue as to what this [...]

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The internet on airplanes

September 3rd, 2012 · 10 Comments

This isn’t right is it? Some US airlines allow passengers to use the internet on board, but most UK airlines ban it for insurance reasons, despite research suggesting that it is safe to use the web in transit. It’s a technical issue surely? The plane has to have the right equipment on board to actually [...]

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Tulisa Contostavlos sex tape

July 13th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Who she? Not the route to a fortune anyway: “The intention of those involved in this joint venture, which led to the online publication of the footage on 17 March this year, was to earn a very substantial sum of money by charging $5.99 to individuals wishing to download the footage. “They anticipated over a [...]

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Local council about to discover the internet

June 15th, 2012 · 31 Comments

So young Ms. Martha Payne had a blog about school lunches. Took the piss a bit about what she was getting. Story gets picked up a bit, filtering through the blogs and forums and generally this internet lark. A national paper or two pick it up as a human interest story (she’s raising money for [...]

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The logic of broadband

May 8th, 2012 · 19 Comments

The internet is a bigger part of the British economy than education, healthcare or construction. Britons generate more money online than any other G20 nation. But when it comes to high-speed broadband, the country is falling behind. The UK’s average download speed is ranked 16th in Europe, according to IT company Akamai, and experts warn [...]

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The onward march of technology

February 7th, 2012 · 11 Comments

as near as I can figure our iPad does everything my laptop could do about 3 years ago. Tchah! Do you not understand? It does it more expensively which is just wonderful, isn’t it?

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Machine translation not quite there yet

January 16th, 2012 · 4 Comments

Haniyeh said during the graduation ceremony of the first class of police academy in Gaza article: ‘The institutions set up security on a national basis should remain a working incubator for any security in the future.’ Haniyeh said: ‘What we have built will not destroy, because the Palestinian people felt fruit construction, particularly by ending [...]

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How to get Google to send an email promptly

January 5th, 2012 · 1 Comment

1) Write about Google at a well known media outlet. 2) Write something about Google at a well known media site that Google would like to finesse. 3) Profit!

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So how much did this cost Zynga?

December 7th, 2011 · 5 Comments

The American Airlines plane was forced to turn back to the departure gate so the 53-year-old actor could be removed from the aircraft, delaying the early morning flight from LAX airport to New York. The 30 Rock star, who could be fined over the incident, had been playing a computer game on his iPad, Words [...]

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In which I am mentioned on Twitter

November 9th, 2011 · 21 Comments

I have to admit that this isn’t quite how I see it: @hal_berstram Hal Berstram @Van_Patten the problem for tim w is that richard m has an extremely deep grasp of economics whereas tim is a hack. it’s as simple as that.

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LOLcat question

October 20th, 2011 · 13 Comments

Lots of LOLcats stuff plays off the joke of washing a cat. OK, alright, some of it does. But, umm, who ever washes their cat? Dogs, yes, sure, but cats? They do that themselves just fine. Is this some Americanism or something, the washing of cats?

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Julie Bindel’s email account has been hacked

September 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Just had that interesting little message from it: Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to Swansea, Wales and had my bag stolen from me with my passport and credit cards in it. The embassy is willing to help by letting me fly without my passport, I just have to pay for [...]

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No, C Minus, see me after class

August 28th, 2011 · 7 Comments

Britain has yet to produce the equivalent of a Microsoft, Apple or Google, but if we are embarking on a second industrial revolution at least one Briton would qualify as the man who launched it – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the internet. He launched the web, not the internet.

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This just in from the Telegraph

July 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments

What is Search Engine Optimisation? It’s the writing of a headline so that Google will pick it up. SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is a marketing technique for making a web page appear more frequently above others in a list of results from a search engine. Usually followed by a sub-head which repeats the terms [...]

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I do love these reports of cyber attacks

June 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment

OK, so it’s the IMF this time. But a report on a cyber attack follows a standard a set patterm Organisation X has been hit by a cyber attack/phishing attempt/hacked. Organisation X has information that could be used to do Y. Then the fun bit: Mohan Koo, a cyber security specialist who is managing director [...]

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On the speed of Google

April 3rd, 2011 · 5 Comments

So, after my last post, about 5 minutes ago, talking about the minimum carbon price, I thought I’d go to Google and see if I could try and work out more about how it would work. Looking through the results I found that my post of 5 minutes ago was the number two entry for [...]

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Why the HuffPo deal might not work

February 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments

But as DR says, under the new corporate dispensation, all bets are off — who’s going to work for AOL for no pay out of pure sentiment? Yup. Now it’s corporate, the business model is slightly broken, isn’t it?

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WTF? Wikileaks Task Force?

December 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Umm: The WikiLeaks Task Force will “examine whether the latest release of WikiLeaks documents might affect the agency’s foreign relationships or operations,” CIA spokesman George Little said. I have a feeling that a rather large number of the CIA’s more junior peeps, the ones who actually do things and know what’s going on, are having [...]

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The latest wikileaks revelation

December 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

The only revelation here seems to be that someone in the US embassy reads the Daily Mail. Which is rather worrying, I suppose.

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A laptop

November 16th, 2010 · 7 Comments

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