The PAYG Laptop?
You write one article about Appliance Computing and the following morning this BBC story pops up - Laptop Launched to aid computer novices'. The 'Alex', a Linux based laptop, is aimed at people who'r…
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The Appliance Computer?
Well, the fuss over the launch of the iPad has died down somewhat - it wasn't the Second Coming or the Rapture, the world didn't suddenly turn Rainbow coloured (not for me. anyway) and the Apple Fans …
PCC, Stephen Gately and liberal backlash
The Press Complaints Commissionshas decided not to uphold complaints about an article by Jan Moirabout the circumstances surrounding Stephen Gately's death. I'm not going to rehash the details of the…
Google Buzz and Google's incursion in to Social Networking
Many years ago there was a joke in techy circles that likened Microsoft to the Star Trek aliens 'The Borg'. It appeared at the time (mid 1990s) that Microosft were indeed determined to assimilate eve…
Espresso Entrepreneurs and Cargo Cult Capitalism
An item caught my attention recently- so much so that I actually replied to the other blog! It suggests that in order to succeed as a startup you actually need to be in Silicon Valley or a similar pl…
Saying Sorry, Contrition, Repentance and the Scorpion
Earlier this weekI commented on the words of John Healey, the Housing Minister who said that repossession is not always a bad thing. As has been pointed out, the 46,000 people repossessed in the last…
A 21 hour working week? Earth calling nef....
I don't like to admit it in public, but I kind of like my work. I'm self-employed, in IT. I probably do around 35 hours a week 'client facing' work and probably about 10 hours a week grubbing up new…
We know where you've been on the Net, and we don't need no steenkin' cookies!
I'm not overly paranoid about people knowing where I've been on the Internet; I'm aware that it's pretty easy for a website to feed your browser 'tracking cookies' that can be used for marketing and a…
BBC bias in favour of globalisation?
As is my habit, I popped in to the BBC Website this morning to catch up on what's been happening in the world and saw this article, with the link headline from the front page of 'Why globalisation mea…
Social Search = global groupthink?
A few days ago I came acrossthis item in Google's blog - looking at what they call 'Social Search. This is a set of applications being developed by Google to allow image content that you and your soc…