Here’s my jetpack!
This news story has been all over TV today, words cannot adequately express how much I want one of these. I doubt there is a geek in the world that has not dreamed of their own jetpack, and the key…
Problems with XP SP3
There have been a few reports of people having reboots after upgrading their XP systems to SP3. Considering the frequency with which this occurance seems to be observed, particularly amongst those with AMD processors it does beg the question whether…
Sprint advertising iPhones
Unfortunately what they are actually trying to advertise is their own competing phone. The series of Internet ads being planned by Sprint could end up costing them a lot of actual money. And as each of them show the competing…
Unplanned outage
I unexpectedly discovered I could go a week without the Internet and survive. I had a conference last week and decided to take the family and extend it into a mini break. Moderately remote location in wine country, but advertised…
Video games DO NOT cause violence.
Can we stop with the conjecture and speculation please! There seem to be as many theories about gaming impact on specific incidents and tenuous causal links as there are people that believe there is an intuitive link. The latest is…
Nothing new with shows as advertising
I have seen discussed on a few blogs the recent announcement by NBC that they will be producing television series that are directly financed by advertisers. These essentially take product placement one step further by having the story lines actually…
Second Apple, or Apple Life?
Reported in GigaOm that Apple has a patent aplication out that suggests that it is building a virtual store with an immersive 3d environment that is less “cold and sterile” than othe web stores. The rumour that accompanies this is…