PlayStation3 Goes On Sale : I may be a bit twiddled from two bottles of particularly nice French red wine, but even I can see that this is one of the most useless, preposterous and bullshit-filled news stories ever. A UK games site has decided to start taking pre-orders for PS3 units, just as hideous […]
A tale of woe from Aled, a fellow mailing list subscriber: the West Brecon Cave Rescue Team has had their rescue Land Rover stolen. How low can society go? If they haven't repainted it already, it has CAVE RESCUE in big letters down the side, and it's registration is X338 DCY. If anyone spots it, […]
Die Hard 2: Die Harder was on itv2 last night, so this was a nice bit of serendipity — Kevin Smith has published the comp artwork for the cover of the forthcoming An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder DVD: He's never looked cooler†. Absolute genius, can't wait. † ... well, as cool as […]
Two sides to the same story : Linspire are releasing a freely-available, freely-distributable, community-led, Debian-based Linux distribution ( sound familiar ?) to be called Freespire . Linspire's edge is that they will distribute non-free drivers, such as for nVidia or ATi graphics cards, as part of the core distribution, and not from optional repositories a […]
I got pinged with a friends list request last night on MSN Messenger (although I use Gaim to connect to the network instead of Microsoft's crappy ad-laden client) from someone I added years ago. I hadn't heard from them for a while and I think I'd deleted them since Gaim reported I wasn't on their […]
What? I'm 32 years old on the 30th of March, 2006. This means it's time for another drinking bash which, since 2004's debauchery [1] was nicknamed "neurothon", I've decided to call neurothon II: revenge of neurothon! As usual, my birthday seems to be falling on a random day — Thursday this year — so I […]
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Is there no end to this John Naughton nonsense ? Does anyone really care if John doesn't understand that economists, financiers, brokers and anyone else interested in the US finance markets will love Google Finance ?