Category: Technology

What are the chances folks? How much would this upset the market and how keen are Google to get into the OS and music business? I have been thinking about this for a while, surely it is a logical step for Google? And they have asked to sell $4 billion worth of shares today :…

I got satellite installed last week, and I am quite happy with my decision. It’s not that Sky thing that everyone seems to be getting these days – I decided instead to just grab the stuff that’s going for free from orbit. The satellite dish has two receivers, one for the Astra2 and one for…

Gillmor has posted his thoughts on Google blacklisting CNET. Could the original CNET piece have been better? Sure, especially by pointing out higher that this is hardly a Google-specific problem, that many other companies are doing such things. Was the article over the top? No. And even if it had been more of a hatchet…

Google seem to be over reacting here: Google has thrown a hissy fit and blacklisted tech news site CNET’s News.com – vowing not to provide quotes or statements to the site for a year. “Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues…

I know how to modify .htaccess to refer a html page to another html or php page, but how do I get a php single entry from WordPress to refer to another weblog, given that it’s using SQL?

Funny story of the day: God alone knows what NatWest customer Chris Lancaster has done to offend the bank’s card issuing department, but it recently sent him a new cash card on which he is gloriously identified as “Dick Head”. Or rather, his new title in full is Mr C Lancaster Dick Head, prompting the…

Yahoo is really starting to pull out the stops with Google. This new network should see a rapid takeup by bloggers, and perhaps generate some competition leader to higher revenue.

I stopped off in a lovely hotel called the Sheen Falls Lodge on the Glengariff side of Kenmare in Kerry.. What a lovely area, so quiet and secluded! Well worth a visit.

I might wait for the PAYG version of 3, but given their performance in th UK I am tempted to move. The lack of 3G coverage doesn’t really bother me, its the calls and texts coverage I would be more worried about, and apparently that coverage is reasonably good. And 3 will soon be offering…

Now will this computer one day sit on my desktop? Japan has revealed plans to build a supercomputer so staggeringly powerful that it will be five times swifter than the 500 fastest systems on the planet today – combined. The supercomputer will boast a peak performance of 10 petaflops and should be completed in 2011,…