Posts by neuro

Break the Chain

I got a beauty forwarded to me this morning in my email: -----Original Message----- From: [snip'd] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 08:56 To: [snip'd] Subject: Message from Strathclyde Police THIS MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM STRATHCLYDE POLICE CAR JACKING SCHEME You walk across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock all […]

Bill Gates: Off Rocker

After reading about Bill Gates' inconsistent predictions for the future with regard to voice recognition, here's further proof that Gates doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about : The other fascinating thing about this change is that it has, to some extent, fulfilled Bill Gates's prediction of January 2004 that " Two years […]

Ich bin ein Clichéd Headline

I've had a day to read and get used to The Observer in its Berliner format. It's much easier to handle, much easier to read, and every writer seems almost painfully aware of the change. The quality of both the Guardian's and Observer's journalism is fantastic; now they have a great-looking platform from which to […]

Memex Errata

Bit disappointed in John Naughton today ... first he gets the year wrong for the first commercial SMS — it was 1992 regardless of when your phone supported it, John. Then, in today's new spangly Berliner-format Observer , he states that the Internet was "developed between 1973 and 1983" . The first international connection — […]

Google Pack

At last, someone at Google has realised something that I and others have known about for ages: it takes ages to install applications on Windows because everything is disparate and has its own installer. On Ubuntu , I can fire up a simple Add Applications applet which allows me to browse a selection of apps […]