Remembering Pavarotti and James Brown...

Links'o'the'day

• Now that looks like a fun job... Rockets and lightning
• Eric Raymond is not happy with Microsoft's 'open licenses'
• Sony get smart with CC licenses
• A hard drive with 1GB of cache?
• An LCD Screen that can scan from Sharp

Links'o'the'day

• Reagan on Rayguns
• NSA@Home... Respec'

Links'o'the'day

• Google News gets deduplicated! Hussah!
  
• Apple and Jaguar, the car, not the Mac OSX version.
  
• Google Earth gets a flight simulator. Check out San Francisco.
  
• Making a Facebook app with Ruby on Rails.
  
• NSFW: Shanghai Gynocology Sign
  

ClearBlue...

You've seen the television ad for the ClearBlue pregnancy tester?

"The most advanced technology you will ever pee on".

That bugs me. I keep adding "deliberately".

Not Overheard

"So like Vista came up and offered 'Revert to last good configuration' so I selected it and it rebooted in Windows 2000"

Safari searching....

I like searching from the address bar. I liked Sogudi, the plugin for Safari which let you do just that. But it don't work with Safari 3 Beta. So I went hunting and found SafariSIA which doesn't claim to work with Safari 3 but, after a brief try out, I can say, it does appear to work.

And yes, I'm trying Safari 3 again, the 3.0.2 beta seems to have addressed a bunch of issues I had. So here we go again.

E70 Fanboys....

The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face. is the delightfully titled, E70 vs iPhone page, complete with sweariness, dubious animations, suspect illustrations and stickiness.

Of course, as an E70 owner, I can point out that the UI sucks, and double sucks with J2ME apps, but yes, native SSH client and IRC clients do work remarkably well.

But I still want a iPhon€....

Right, let's try that again....

Yes, it's been quiet. Maybe I should remember to leave MarsEdit open.

Embeddable Exellence - Crazy

via Truthdig

How to read all the national newspapers using RSS

Press Gazette Blogs - Fleet Street 2.0 » How to read all the national newspapers using RSS gives you a nice ready to roll feed of 384 national newspapers. So, how big a news junkie are you?

On Microsoft Surface Computing

"It's half arsed, under specced and no, you *can't* buy it" - Sarah

And that kinda sums the entire feeling of underwhelmingness that I got from Microsoft's Surface technology. A vaguely productised rendition of a multitouch surface device aimed at people who can afford $10000 to have it installed.

It feels more like Bill Gates attempt to slap his cock on the table at the D conference today. A Digger nailed it for me...

"Awesome, a touch screen table.
Now if only it could fit in my pocket, hold songs and video, had a phone built in and only cost $499 or $599...." - Fitzfan

And that's the difference between Apple and Microsoft. Apple release consumer products, Microsoft release statements of intent and demos of things which they hope will make a consumer product one day.

Anecdotally, I was playing with the concept of touchable desks back in 1984... We're still not where I was imagining things then...

Beans, real Beans....

Richard Bair's posted about JavaBeans and what makes a real Bean. Food for thought. And no, JavaBeans don't make you do this....

Enjoy Weird Al, Bobbing about.

The Repurposing

[ I'm playing around with getting some oped out of my head, so this is a developing article ]

Adobe, Microsoft and Sun have all rolled out their Web "Rich Application" Platforms. Now that the wraps are off the WRAPs, there's one thing that's obvious. They are all based around repurposing each companies existing platform. Adobe took Flash, gave it a programming language that didn't sit on a timeline and glued it into Eclipse so code developers don't have to step out of their IDE to develop for it. But basically, it's Flash, with a pony tail and sandals and a tool bag. Microsoft took their .Net platform, created a bucket of glue for Python to run on it, called the glue the DLR, and made it web embeddable. Sun took Java, fixed up the long standing issue of Java being a big download, popped a new scripting language on top, and called it JavaFX.

What does the repurposing achieve though? It does establish dynamic scripting languages as a first class platform, rather than its more traditional position as the left-field platform of geeks and hackers. But beyond there, they still have a lot to do. Adobe and Microsoft have delivered not so much open platforms as ajar platforms; they both have open sourced elements to their offerings, but both have proprietary lock-ins, Adobe on the server side (with the Flex platform playing 'best' with Adobe server extensions) and Microsoft on the development tools (Silverlight might run on a Mac, but to develop it you'll be wanting Windows and Visual Studio). Sun have a more open offering but they also have a different problem; over ten years of "Java's too slow, too big" folk analysis is a lot of baggage to take into a fight, a fight which Sun started on back in 1995 when they launched Java.

But there's also another competitor to all these technologies. The repurposing of the browser. Five years ago if you'd said people could drag and zoom maps, work with documents and spreadsheets, drag and drop components and all this in a web browser with no embedded virtual machines or components, folks would have called you a fantasist. And yet that is where we are with the whole host of Ajax related developments. All they miss is the ability to step "outside" the browser, but even then it's not a huge leap to think of using the core of the browser, the rendering canvas as the run time for non-browser applications; just lose the back button and address bar and you have the repurposed browser. What this approach lacks is a big hitting company behind it.

So now we have four approaches in play...

[ to be continued ]

I'm in both camps....

Freaky Friday Idea...

I have this idea, it's like Freaky Friday crossed with Life On Mars but it follows an IT pundit getting swapped with some one else.... It'd start something like this

"My name is Guy Kewney.
I had an accident and woke up at the BBC.
Am I mad, back in time or in a Goma?"

Hmmm... maybe not.

Bestest iTunes Visualizer Evah

Magnetosphere

It actually *reacts* to the music and looks fabulous.

Ah... Skamoto and Pop

Ah, so good.

Microsoft have no sense of irony

Er, guys, you know going up to eleven really didn't do anything.

Things I hate ....

People who use Flickr Notes to *comment* on a picture.

That is all - © The Hodge Man

On the Leopard delay....

Me, I'm not overly perturbed. What Apple are doing is making sure they hit the "Just Works" target and they are going with an old strategy of Sun's, "All the wood behind one arrow", that arrow being OSX. The odds are that they are building all the OS's, AppleTV OSX, iPhone OSX, Leopard (and dare we say iPod OSX, I think we can) from the same source base and it's that which has diverted resources as they avoid the cul-de-sac approach of taking a branch of OSX, porting it to the phone and then spending the next few years running independent dev teams and trying to keep things in sync.

This "All the wood behind one arrow" does have the potential to pay back well for Leopard, especially if people want that funky sub notebook which really knows how to handle location independence and "On The Plane/Down the Tube" modes. And the experience of being tight and lean and mean for a phone is going to be good for the development team, who have been a little spoilt as Apple's hardware chaps have been giving them more performance in the last couple of years than they've had previously; the desire to burn performance for features is always high, and reigning that back in can pay back in a faster tighter slicker desktop OS.

And, what, boohoo, I have to keep running Tiger... It's not like I actually need an update, it's not like Tiger is collapsing under the weight of it's own patches. If I really want Java6, I can download it from Apple and run with it. And I can keep making backups as I always have done. The only people who are going to be groaning are the ISV's who've been romping through the Leopard APIs and deciding their next version will be Leopard only. They will have to rethink what they are going to do for the bulk of 2007, and probably roll out a new Tiger version of their applications in the interim. It's all down to development roadmaps in the end and roadmaps are aspirations with a timeline attached.

So, in summary, sky not falling, sun will come up tomorrow, and the only things that are certain are death and taxes; no one added "Leopard in June" to that short list.

Yahoo thinks iPod owners are pirates

In an article on TechCrunch,Yahoo’s New Media Device, a sterling quote from "Ian Rogers"...

For those of you about to complain about the $12/month to get unlimited tracks (like, um, Steve Jobs), check yourself before you riggity wreck yourself. Labels and artists get paid for every radio play and every Yahoo! Music download to the Sansa Connect, whereas we all know iPods are mostly full of not-paid-for MP3s.

To which I respond, "Oi, Ian Rogers.... you just made sure I wouldn't even suggest a Yahoo music subscription to anyone, let alone think about it myself, because you hold consumers in utter contempt."...

Alanis rocks....

AAA Cellphone

Philips Cellphone Supports AAA Battery Use - What a neat idea.... Damn you Philips, it'll probably suck in implementation.

Yeah, Applets are slow...

JPC - Computer Virtualization in Java, the dry and stuffy name for an x86 emulator written as a Java Applet, and yes you can try the demo in your browser, complete with games.

(Via ikvm.net.)

Thou Shalt....

Watch this video - dan le sac VS scroobius pip "Thou Shalt always Kill" - for it completely rocks!

Thanks Ade

TFL mashing up

Check out TFL's own little mashup, google maps and traffic cameras as live travel news. Nice work. Now, can we tear off the camera bubbles and make a dashboard of live feeds?

Curious

So who reads this blog I wonder? Go ahead, drop a comment, and what you read it for.

Or I'll um.... post bad YouTube videos... Bwahaha!



Update: Apparently hardly anyone. So I resort to good YouTube videos first.

Reading problem...

A story about a Methane sniffing Mars Plane on Engadget... which I initially read as saying ...

then be able to detect methane at levels as low as a few farts per billion,

But, hey, that's kinda right isn't it?

You've used the font....

You've used the font...

Now see the movie

(Actually, it sounds quite interesting...)

(Via Helvetica (kottke.org).)

AjaxTerm - Thats quite neat...

AjaxTerm is a rather impressive bit of work. It's a python script you run which lets you point your browser at a port on that machine and get an Ajaxy terminal session which you can login in with.

Continuations for Curmudgeons

After the last LRUG meeting there was much discussion of continuations, and following up from that Ross pointed the LRUG irc channel at Sam Ruby: Continuations for Curmudgeons which explains continuations pretty damn well.

Acts_As_Ferret - Full text searching

This tutorial, Rails Envy: Acts_As_Ferret Tutorial strikes me as jolly interesting, and alleviates my fear that it would feed my models sugar candy till they go hyperactive like Kiki.

Did I mention I've been Railing?

Yes, I've been getting into Ruby on Rails and it is quite a pleasant place to work. I came to it with a purpose, to understand it's mojo so one can compare with the various Railsy frameworks popping up for Java, but it is tempting me to settle in and work a lot more with it. The current challenge, Converence; the prototype works, now to make it all shiny and slick. Oh and scalable. Ish.

Trying Marsedit....

As there's no widget at the moment, I thought I'd check out Marsedit.

Apparently it plays nice with New Blogger.

Update: Well, it does play well so far. This might be a goer.

Well.... The prototype worked.....

My little project "Rix" which was meant to be just an experiment with Ruby on Rails. Well, the experiment went pretty well; for the first time, I felt confident enough to try it out on a couple of folks and it seems to work. So, I'm killing "Rix", or more coopting it as the basis for Converence. What's Converence? It's my long running attempt to glue the threaded message style of conferencing with the immediacy of IRC and IM. I'm well impressed with Ruby On Rails, it's let me get something that works together far quicker than in the past. Now, the real test is how it'll all work out as I push the design forward and make the UI as natural and slick as possible.

I'll need something to think about over the next few months to stop me worrying about getting an ingrown toenail removed (and though that isn't that much of a deal, it is for me for when I was young, the same operation went bad and it has stuck with me since)... So I'll be getting plenty of screen time.

I do wish Blogger would sort out a MacOSX widget for the current Blogger; blogging is lacking it's immediacy.

8 bit joy....

I just found 8 Bit Operators. Kraftwerk as played on 8 bit game consoles.

8-Bit Operators |
8-Bit Operators Myspace

Astralwerks Records |
Buy At Amazon.com

Public Service Announcement

Why I say no to ID cards....

Because the government just can't help hiding the truth and lying about facts. Trust em with my dabs? Not a chance... It's not just the fishing expedition, it's the "Well there's quite a high step to get onto the trawler to go fishing, so we'll call that a restriction... and don't mention how big a trawl we can do when we're out there". The clock starts now for Mr Plod to arrest someone on the strength of a match.

"Neighbours" to change palette...

Australia to be lit in crappy faintly orangey light.... horrible bloody things them CFLs are.

via SBisson who thinks it's a good thing.

Macrovisionless.....

So the CEO of Macrovision has responded to Steve Jobs Thoughts on Music.

Next week, Vlad the impaler on why todays young people need more, not less impaling.

Bah Blogger

I like Blogger, but, does anyone find it hilariously bad that they don't have a working Dashboard Widget for the "New" Blogger? You'd have thought "Hey, lets make sure our few tools we distribute actually work with New Blogger before we take it out of beta" would have been... on the to-do list?

The real Wow...

Steve makes me go Wow!

Now maybe the record labels would like to step up to the challenge.

Windows Se7en....

So apparently "Vienna", Microsoft's code name for the version of Windows in which the things Vista didn't deliver will have (honest, no word of a lie) is now called Windows 7. Or is that Windows Se7en where Microsoft implement all the seven deadly sins. Obviously, Sloth and Greed are already a well established foundation technology for Microsoft. And Bill Gates has been hands on working on Wrath, Envy and Pride in interviews. Gluttony will be implemented by the acquisitions department, leaving only Lust for the developers to work on. Ah... Redmond, I think we have a problem...

Working on a phone

Well, the Nokia E70 amazes me again. I'm using it's browser to post this!

Saturday Morning Bible Quiz....

I blame Pharyngula....

You know the Bible 87%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

Ultimate Bible Quiz
Create MySpace Quizzes

And it's still a load of mystical mythic cobblers.

Oh The Consumer Frenziality

Sounds like the world's going wild^H^H^H^Hmild for Vista....

It's what the PS3 doesn't have, stupid

So Peter Moore can't think of anything the PS3 has that the 360 doesn't have... True, there's one thing the PS3 doesn't have though that the 360 shouldn't have. The Noise. The 360 is the noisiest console I have ever owned, it whirrs fans frantically, spins the noisiest DVD drive ever and hums my desktop in a finger trembling stylee. And it's because of that that I'm taking the 360 out from under the big TV, because the noise makes it a complete non starter as a digital entertainment hub. I don't want to watch a movie with it droning away, heck, after a while the hum gets to drill through you while playing games. And thats not good. At least Sony approached the PS3 as a device for the living room and have by all reports made it a quiet beast. Microsoft on the other hand have used a cheap noisy DVD drive. Thanks Microsoft. I SAID THANKS MICROSOFT. WHAT? SORRY I HAVE MY 360 ON... SPEAK UP!

Mitchell (PC) and Webb (Mac) Rock....

So Apple got Mitchell and Webb to do the UK version of the Mac ads....

See them here.

Thought for the day....

"Microsoft is People Ready like a wood chipper is People Ready"

Microsoft are thieving bastards

Say you developed a nice way of making objects visible to people learning how to program. And the software you developed was free....

And then one day, Microsoft copied the idea and incorporated it into their Visual Studio product.

Well, like any reasonable person who writes free software, you could applaud their taking that idea.

But fast forward a few months... How would you feel if Microsoft went and patented your idea claiming it as their own. You would be reasonably fell somewhat unhappy.

Guess what? That's exactly what Microsoft have done with Blue/J. Read the gory details here.

Update: StevePa tells me in the comments that the application has been withdrawn and there's an investigation ongoing into why this happened. Which is good.

Love Will Tear Us Apart

It's one of those songs you don't really think can be covered well...

And then someone goes and does a heart breaking cover like this.

Lovely.

A kinda new beginning

Well, I thought about it, and I've promoted this blog into my main personal and geeky blog. While I was at it I finally switched to the new Blogger. So.... to quote a movie... "Let's START RUNNING!"

Logitech - Todays Suckage Winner

So, you've got a Mac and a Logitech peripheral eh? Installed Logitech's Control Center? You'll regret it when I tell you this then.

It installs APE, the "Application Enhancer" in the background and uses it to do it's messing around with your apps.

Now APE has a reputation for being (a) clever (b) making machines quite unstable.

Your machine behaving at all oddly? Have you just gone and uninstalled Logitech's Control Center? If so... sorry, but Logitech don't wipe up their crap after them, and they leave APE installed. With no uninstaller.

Want to remove it? Check this out.

Right now, I'm running Steermouse... it's $20 but it works with all mice.

My iPhone Take.....

(a) It's very nice. It basically aims to deliver the experience that people have sold in concept videos. Remember the Origami videos?

(b) No, it's not for everyone. It's *one* product in it's first release. This is the iPod 1G. Yes, everyone can point to same or similar features in other devices. They can point to features the iPhone doesn't have (like 3G) that other phones have. That's not the point; like the iPod 1G, this is about establishing a position and an experience.

(c) This is the first of what I suspect are many product releases from Apple this year. My hope, a phoneless iPhone, with wifi and bluetooth, which acts as the Apple Remote for all your kit.

(d) I still want one. But I'm not rushing out for it. Thanks Steve for using America as the final test area.

Some PS3 thoughts....

Blu-ray is the next Betamax? Not really. Betamax and VHS were physically incompatible. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD share the same form factor so we can have Dual Format players (Hurry up LG!) and we can have dual format discs (Total HD). So it's not a Betamax/VHS style war.

PS3 will kill Sony? Unlikely; wheras Sony's competitors yank the oxygen from their previous generation of console as soon as their new unit hits the market, Sony are keeping the PS2 as a live product, to mop up the low end market in the same way the PSone did when the PS2 arrived. Thanks to aggressive back compatibility, you get a much longer product life for Sony (and the current slim PS2 is very nice) and for the low end consumers there's good protection on their investment in games.

So, that's the two big myths nailed. What this is really all about is how well Sony execute their strategy in the market. It's been a rocky start, but they are being ambitious, and that never hurts when you are designing to repeat the same process you did with the PS1/PS2 and PS2/PS3, sliding in new generations instead of traumatically transitioning.

Google pulls the plug on SOAP

Google Operating System blog reports on the plug pulling on Google's SOAP search. No WSDL any more, no programmatic searching, and you have to use the Ajax API in pages to access search. No thanks Google... sounds like you've decided to be a little bit evil.

So Cisco bring out the iPhone...

.... and I don't care. See Gizmodo piss their credibility up the wall here.

Me, I'm pondering what Apple could call a phone. Macall! A mac which calls. Sorted. And you can run around in a US TV cop voice going "MACALL! You've got a MACALL!".

I'll get me coat.

Tiny Shuffle.... needs.

Tiny Shuffle's need one thing, a tiny charger and this is a sweet teeny charger. I think a UK three pin adapter would play against it here of course. [via Engadget]

This is evil

Gizmodo shows us evil and it is annoying, annoying as a device which beeps at random at 2 to 8 minute intervals can be. Fair warning, if anyone plants one of these near me, prepare for them to be exposed to DEEEEEEEEEEEP HURTING.

Want! O-Ring Digi!

Gizmodo tempts me with the O-Ring Digi, a super sleek and sexy watch which can remind me about doughnuts.


Mmmmmmmm doughnuts....

Noise Cancelling done cheap

Engadget picks out JVCs new noise cancelling headphones with a neat ability to select the kind of cancelling it does, and all for $60.

Optimus.... oh dear....

Gizmodo brings the news that the Optimus keyboard has now taken on a new taste in suck, namely it's coming in black and white on the keys. All that photoshoppery was just that. Ah well.

Nintendo to rename Wii.....

Nintendo to rename the Wii to the Wiicrunchclattersmash for trade descriptions accuracy. (via Engadget)

Dock Pr0n

Back after a break... and first up is this mmmmm iPod dock (via Engadget). It's got teh shiny, teh valvez and apparently blue LEDs*. And a silly price.

* black enamel paint over the top of a blue LED makes them much more socially acceptable.

Blu-Ray was right for PS3....

Blu-Ray was right for the PS3. Want to know why? Well Blue Dragon on the Xbox 360 is coming on 3 DVDs, uncompressed, the data takes around 30GB. So, there is a need for a lot of data for games and putting a high capacity media in from day zero means developers don't have to worry about slicing their game over multiple DVDs.

Fat leg? A cable solution

Gizmodo again, mention a rather neat fat legged table which uses the fat leg as a cable routing duct. Simple... just be careful when you pull out the table from its corner... CRASH CLATTER CRUNCH.

The Antiergonomic mouse...

Gizmodo mentions a mouse with a built in card reader but I'm thinking that it'll be a pig to use if you put an SD card in and then have to mouse around to get at the stuff on the SD card. Still for £5.95, it screams stocking filler....

I'm Optimustic....

Engadget brings the news that Optimus are going to take preorders for their 103 LCD or OLED keyboard from December 12th. I'm not jumping into the queue, but I'm looking forward to the possibility of them actually not being the creation of an ace photoshopper.

I think my ride's here....

I think my ride is here. How cool is that? A personal blimp! And in funky wasp colours!

Palmsy

Palmsy, the inevitable decline of Palm; now it moves into farce with the delay of the Treo 680 because they made 144000 Treo 680's and forgot somewhere down the line to connect the internal microphone. (Via Gizmodo)

A screen for racing games....

Engadget boggles at Woojin's 19" monitor with integrated mini me, a 19" monitor sporting a 8 inch screen in it's top edge bezel. Why? Well, it could be for the rear view mirror display for racing games or....

No, sorry, I'm out of ideas...

Make your own Wacom Cintiq...

Engadget points out a chap who's made his own Wacom Cintiq, the rather lovely monitor/tablet from Wacom (usually followed by the words 'it costs how much?!', for the price prudent £100 and a lot of time. Kudos to the chap; now, come on Wacom, bring them Cintiq prices down; you got competition.

iPhone.... maybe.....

But I'll believe it when Steve goes "And just one more thing, oh hey, hold on I have a call", rather than ThinkSecret reading the far east trade sheets.

Shuttlised Keyboard

Here's a different keyboard with a jogwheel all set up where the arrow keys would be. Now, having a Shuttle Express I can't decide if the sacrifice of cursor keys is worth it. At least I can put the Shuttle out of the way when I'm not using it.

Laptop in repose?

Gizmodo brings news of the Easy Desk Aluminium which allows you to flake out on your back with your laptop above you. My only worry is the laptop is restrained by only a shelf edge.

Zune launched by hobo

A hobo today was seen giving away digital audio players.... Hobo experts dispute this saying the man is just a rich eccentric who poses as a hobo, and point out that his coat is colour coordinated with the digital audio playing device.

Dell get colourful

MacNN points out Dell have got a new big one, LCD monitor that is. 30 inches, better colour gamut (92% NTSC) and Dell's bestest feature, price; $1700. Which could have it at around £1360 in the UK if Dell keep the pricing consistent. (And as an aside, at the moment Dell seem to have to current 30" at £1027 inc vat if you're after a big one in a hurry)....

Woosh... 100GB Ethernet sorta

Om Malik writes about a 100GB Ethernet test over 4000km. The magic trick? Clever hardware which multiplexes the signal over 10 10GB links. No, this isn't for your desktop; this is for your ISP's ISP.

Toasty, USB Stylee

Tokyo Times updates us on the latest in USB powered footware and leaves me wondering why...

IBM demand more free pie...

More free pie demanded from free pie shop

Lithium Fireworks

The chaps at Gizmodo found this lovely video whereupon laptop batteries are filmed doing that exploding thing. Now, I'm going out to buy a class D fire extinguisher.

Cheap HD-DVD for PC...

It looks like the XBox 360's external HD-DVD drive accessory works on a PC (and a Mac, though not for HD-DVD due to the lack of a player). UneasySilence does the dirty work and for £129, PC owners may want to consider it. (Via Gizmodo)

Are Iiyama back?

I used to love Iiyama monitors; great pricing, great specs. But over time they ended up as a solid second on my list, price not great, specs average for the price. Well that may change with their new 19" wide screen (Engadget) which boast a tasty dual DVI+HDCP and DSub inputs and a roughly translated price of $300... I'll be keeping my eye out to see what price this lands for in the UK.

Paging Willy Wonka!

ifoAppleStore reports that the Apple Regent Street store has a new glass elevator and a weekend planned for the unveil. As my local Apple store, I look forward to getting trapped in it for I'm a born early adopter.

Google Earth - with old maps

Google Earth now has a set of overlayable maps. It's not really 4D till Google start stacking the previous versions of their high resolution photographs in time order, but it's a nice selection of maps and a useful way to present them.

Tim Bray on OSS Java

Tim Bray gives us the nitty gritty of the GPLing of Java

Ars Technica kill a new iPod Shuffle

Ars Technica do the review of the new iPod Shuffle by stomping on it, throwing it from third floor windows, dropping it in beer and seeing how it survives. It does, but eventually succumbs to being run over by a car.

GPL Java....

GPL Java, but not as Stallman will like it.

Which is good, as I can carry on using it. The Classpath Exception is the giant condom on the code, allowing for safe GPL usage by basically nailing the virality of the GPL in a dynamically linked environment.

But the first idiots who fork it 'just cos they can' should be hunted down and beaten with cluesticks, big cluesticks.

And hussah for it being GPL v2; who needs GPL v3 with it's anti-DRM agenda embedded in it?

Fitt's Flaw

Seems Joystiq found a funky flaw with the Nintendo Wii's cursor, in that it has a life off screen where you won't see it, leading to a bit of dissonance as you waggle to find it. (via Digg)

That "Apple" wifi hack...

WiFiNetnews brings us the news that the Ellich/Maynor hack applies to Windows too and that Ellich and Maynor in this case behaved like whiter than white hats. Good work chaps.

4 seconds of er...

Oh my, 18 months to get four seconds of reverb and clonks... yeah, thats the Microsoft brand, reverby clonking. (Via Digg)

Speed and ajax....

Speed and ajax; no, not a dodgy offering from a retailer of illegalities, but SpeedTest.net the most Ajaxy, Flashy broadband speed tester you'll come across today.

Something going awry with the Zune launch?

Who can tell but it ain't going to go with a RocketBoom if this Dear Bill letter is anything to go by. (via Techmeme)

It's Symbolic you know...

Engadget report on the end of the Symbol/PalmOS relationship. My Palm relationship ended with the Treo 650 and Palm aren't getting me back with their current road map. Symbol were one of those companies you liked to see applying Palm's tech in an industrial situation... and now they won't be.

Unhappy Samba Campers

The Samba chaps express their unhappiness in no uncertain terms to the Novell-Microsoft "We'll warm the lube first" agreement. (Via /.)

PS3 Explicit Video

See the nice people strip a PS3 and go ooh at the big ass fan.

Vista RTbootsale "ships"

Already there's a slight crack for Vista. So, hows that user irritactivation working out for you Microsoft?

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