10th July 2003
sizzle
31 May 2008
To Whom It May Concern: If you are reading this then I can only assume that you have removed the pond under which this note is buried... For those of you who have not yet clicked on the first link, go click on the link. ...
The Letter in the Pond
Recently, a friend of ours, Simon, moved to Over, just North of Cambridge, UK. He was moving to a lovely property, with a nice garden and a pond. Simon wasn't so keen on the pond though. It's not very child friendly, and with two young ones running around the garden, he thought it would be safer to ...
Apple Bought Me.com? .Mac’s New Name?
Earlier today, John Gruber of DaringFireball.net suggested that Me.com might be the name for Apple's .Mac rename. There was no real evidence, however, except that Me.com was registered under MarkMonitor's domain service. ...
Review: HTC Shift
Product: HTC Shift CDMA version Vendor: Sprint Price: $1499 from Amazon Reviewer: Stephen Borders (badersk) Rating: 8.5 of 10 I know What you are thinking; ‘Not another review of the Shift, everybody has done this thing to death’.Matthew Garrett: Personality modification through perl
One of the downsides of writing my thesis last year was that focusing on a technical subject for approximately 16 hours a day left me almost entirely unable to relate to people. The irony in this is that losing the ability to socially relate tends to result in you assuming that you're fine and everyone else is just behaving bizarrely, which makes rectifying the situation rather difficult.Weakening Signals
Bill Watson might play a four-hour piece by Bach, and then slap it on again, just because he felt like it. Or he might interrupt a Mahler symphony mid-spin, deciding instead to recite poetry or blend news bulletins with reports from his "Roman Empire correspondent," Edward Gibbon.Google推出Linux版Google Gadgets
Google推出了桌面小玩意的Linux版，虽然只有源码包，我还是大起胆子，折腾了好几个小时把它给装上了。 (点图链接过去可以看大图) 上一次编译源码已经不知道是什么时候的事了，所以系统里缺无数的开发包，下面是/var/log/aptitude中记录的刚装的包： [INSTALL] autoconf [INSTALL] automake [INSTALL] libtool [INSTALL] pkg-config [INSTALL] libcurl4-gnutls-dev [INSTALL] libxml2-dev [INSTALL] libgtk2.Hutchison / 3 snags iPhone for Hong Kong and Macau
Filed under: Handsets, Apple, Hutchison 3Looks like Hutchison (aka 3) snagged the iPhone for distribution in Hong Kong and Macau, which will be coming "later this year." Like the rest, this was another one liner un-announcement with no real info, but you probably wouldn't want to anger Steve before WWDC.AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 pictured [News]
COMPUTEX 2008: We've got pictures of AMD's new next generation graphics card, the Radeon HD 4850 - check inside to see what's changed... or not, as the case may be.Find the Item Contest
Something a bit different this week. As you have probably seen we offer many free technical magazines that can be subscribed to by answering a few questions. The contest this week will be a hunt for the matching magazine.College Student Makes Multi-touch Table Out Of Cardboard Box [Multi-touch]
Microsoft's Surface multi-touch table sure is cool, but who has $10,000 to spend on a gadget like that? I personally have maybe fifty bucks to my name right now, so I guess I'll have to fulfill my...It’s Not Rocket Science, But It’s Our Work
It's exciting stuff and we hang on every bit of news. Twitter's system architecture shortcomings are nowhere near as interesting and we're certainly not as exciting as rocket science or exploring Mars to most people. Earlier this evening, TechCrunch posted some specific technology questions for us on ...
Shuttle leaves for space station
BBC News - Jun. 1 (News Report) - Nasa's Discovery shuttle has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The shuttle and its crew of seven are delivering a giant cylinder for Japan's Kibo science lab but also a new pump to repair the station's toilet. The toilet in the Zvezda service module failed last week. Discovery's flight is the third orbiter mission of 2008 and the first to fly the "in-line" external fuel tank.NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It
Greener power to the people: the real energy alternative?
The Independent - Jun. 1 (News Report) - Ministers could avoid building nuclear reactors by encouraging families to fit solar panels and other renewable energy equipment to their homes, a startling official report concludes. The government-backed report, to be published tomorrow, says that, with changed policies, the number of British homes producing their own clean energy could multiply to one million - about one in every three - within 12 years.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
NY’ers: You Have One Day Left With No Sales Tax - Amazon/NewEgg
As many of you are aware, the State of New York has decided to begin to collect sales tax on merchandise shipped into the state from most online retailers. From what I gather, if the merchant collects more than $10,000 a year, the State of New York is coming to collect.StyleTap Announces Plans To Bring Palm Applications To Apple iPhone
StyleTap today announced plans to bring to market a version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for the iPhone and the iPod touch, which will instantly allow over 20,000 mobile applications to run on these popular devices.From the Pipeline - 5.30.08
I love it - another day with a topic that has gotten a really good conversation going. It doesn’t get any better than that. Right now though here are a few things that I found of interest floating through the FriendFeed pipeline.TheWB.com Opens for a Peek
The WB private-beta-launched its anticipated new portal of old shows tonight, and I just had a chance to take a look around. The site looks nice enough and promises some interesting features, but there’s a lot left unfinished — like the original online shows we’d been promised.The Meaning of Open Source
Like many Linux Journal readers, I have been upgrading my Gibbons to Herons recently. And like many readers, I imagine, I have been finding a few little challenges along the way. That was no surprise, since it's pretty much par for the course when carrying out a major upgrade. ...