Category: Technology
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On libel
Dick and Damien note a press release from McCann Fitzgerald concerning libel and blogs. Could someone publish more of the press release? It does seem rather interesting. What strikes me is going after the ISP. How do, say Esat BT, remove my blog from their service? Do they block it? Could someone just not get…
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Sun ructions
I have been watching Sun closely of late, especially given their recent share price rise. In-fighting continues however. Ashlee Vance at El Reg has a good story on the latest. I especially like her ending sentence. Referring here to retired server chief John Shoemaker, who is being critical of Sun management: Shoemaker clearly does not…
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Installing…
I’m tempted to do some testing to distract me from studying…so I’ve decided to install Ubuntu, Windows Vista build 5432, and Windows XP Home. Partitioning the drives..
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New York Times
New York Times site redesigned…I like it.
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Bebo again
It seems the media have woken up to Bebo, my post at the start of the month recommended buying it. It stands, even if it’s just to sell it on. Several of the broadsheets covered Bebo over the weekend. It made the front page of Cork’s Evening Echo. (PDF)
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Mesothelioma lawyers
Apparently these phrases are quite expensive to buy for adverts. Why the popularity? mesothelioma mesothelioma cancer mesothelioma lawyer mesothelioma attorney pleural mesothelioma peritoneal mesothelioma malignant mesothelioma mesothelioma asbestos mesothelioma treatment mesothelioma symptom mesothelioma lawsuit malignant pleural mesothelioma mesothelioma info mesothelioma law firm mesothelioma law mesothelioma information abdominal mesothelioma mesothelioma research mesothelioma diagnosis pericardial mesothelioma mesothelioma…
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Satellites Will See More, Faster
It looks like all the mapping websites, including Google Maps and Virtual Earth, will have access to far more and far more frequent data. GeoEye says its next-generation satellite, GeoEye-1, will be capable of acquiring each day approximately 270,000 square miles of imagery, an area about the size of Texas. That’s about seven times the…
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Google Finance
Of all the things Google have done in the last year, I like Google Finance the most, it is simplicity itself.
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Tracking flights
When I was in Boston Logan I used the airport Wifi to watch realtime flight data on a map, as flights arrived and departed from the airport. Now this nifty bit of software plugs into Google Earth, so you an watch flight data updated every 60 seconds. It works from a number of US airports.
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China delays space walk for six months
China are holding off on a space walk – but their prowess (regardless of reliance on Russian technology) is increasing. China’s planned space walk mission has been put back by six months and will not now take place until 2008. The scheduled launch of the Shenzhou VII rocket will be the country’s third manned mission,…