A strange thing: Two XP Pro machines, running different A/V and firewall suites (Trend ZoneAlarm), in different environments (home/work), yet on both Internet Explorer has started loosing the browser...
People get frustrated when computers don't work. I'm just amazed most of the time that they do. This toon puts the innards of your computer into perspective. I love it, especially the reference to Bri...
From www.speedtest.net
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It's been dial-up speed broadband here for the last two days. Tomorrow full speed returns and I can't wait! The Internet without broadband is not the internet! UPDATE 2008-09-17: It's back! B...
I thought I better check out all the recent activity in the browser world. There's nothing better to test them with than your own site so here are mine in Microsoft IE8 beta and Google Chrome. I'll re...
A few days with my feed disabled, to trace a fault, showed how many of you already use a feed reader. The drop-off in readers was very apparent in the statistics, so thanks for subscribing and coming...
This post testâ??s if BlogJet + TypePad is workingâ?¦ UPDATE 2008-08-15: I never found out why this happens but there is a fix here
I’ve had a Vox blog for a while and in many ways it’s a superior platform to TypePad . Both are from the same company, Six Apart , but Vox is free* while TypePad is a paid service. It seems a little b...
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Shaan laments the death of spelling and I think I agree. I’m also not sure how good (note I resisted using the word cool here!) the new search engine Cuil is but it’s worth an ActiveWord . This one wi...
I'm currently reading George Dyson's "Darwin Among the Machines" so it was interesting to see his short (20 min) presentation on computing history at TED. The engineers notes, seen in the later part of the presentation, will amuse anyone who has battled with computer
So that’s why my Internet was stopping after a few mintes. Blocked net meant finding the solution, to blocked net, was a bit of a pain. Installed the ZA patch and all is well again. ZoneAlarm up...
I’ve made a couple of changes to the site wonder if anyone has noticed? Navigation Bar: TypePad have added the “Navigation Bar” which sits below the banner. I’ve currently got links to my other...
