Archive for March, 2006

I don’t often make posts out of Spam, but this was just a touch too priceless.

The message reads: Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single link will not.

Needless to say, Akismet [...]

At the beginning of February I wrote about the fact that it seemed impossible to test Microsoft’s IE7 beta legally and without hacks without making a large financial outlay for Virtual PC and a fresh Windows XP license.

Today, neatly coinciding with the release of the second beta 2 preview I stumbled upon my long discarded [...]

After getting over the amusement of Microsoft making it even harder to run a secure Windows system (quite possibly in the name of security, too), I need an alternative standalone file manager. Some of them look rather OTT for my purposes, so I’m after suggestions.

… A small, ugly tablet PC with pitiful 3 hour battery life. Awesome work guys.

Introducing the Q1, Dr David Steel, Samsung’s vice president of digital media business, said: This is a very good sign of convergence coming into the computer industry.Now the consumer has a single mobile computing device that combines the mobile functionality [...]

Fatty isn’t convinced by my favoured hAtom use-case for providing Comment Feeds, so I’ve got two more reasons why hAtom might yet save the world.