Mothballed last year, the Observer Blog has returned in preparation for the Sunday newspaper's relaunch into the Berliner format — the same process its stablemate The Guardian successfully went through in September 2005 . newsdesigner.com has more details on the relaunch .
Microsoft WMF Patch — it's live and available .
Pending an evening of the Indiana Jones trilogy and a shitload of drinks, I humbly plagiarise and present: To Prepare You'll need the following: The Indiana Jones trilogy, preferably on Blu Ray: A movie playback device, and a humungous TV (surround sound system recommended) Bunch of friends who aren't surly drunks A shitload of alcoholic […]
West Wing actor John Spencer died yesterday aged 58 after suffering a heart attack. He played Chief of Staff Leo McGarry in The West Wing, one of my favourite characters in the show. Apparently he had appeared in 7 of the first 14 episodes of Season 7 before he died. The show is in hiatus […]
Robert X. Cringely casts a critical eye at Oboe, the mp3tunes locker service, asks Michael Robertson (he of mp3.com and Linspire) how he thinks the business can be profitable, and looks at how Apple may be doing something similar. read more | digg story
Last week, I bought a cheesy Pinnacle USB2 TV-in device. I really only wanted it for composite video in from a PlayStation2; the fact it had an aerial socket for analogue terrestrial TV wasn't a factor in the purchase at all. In fact the main purchase factor was that it was in stock at a […]
I've finally resurrected my meeja.net domain by re-registering it with godaddy.com . Why didn't I use gradwell.com , my regular registrar of over five years? Because godaddy also have some insanely cheap hosting — US$37/yr for 5GB of storage and 250GB of transfer a month. That's riduculously cheap. So what am I going to do […]
On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones. read more | digg story
I just did an aspergers test. I scored: Your Aspie score: 98 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 120 You are more neurotypical than Aspie Hehe, neuro typical ... ba-dum-tsh :) [via sparkes ]