Comedy
No Java, has New Zealand upset Sun?
I suspect this was probably the result of our company firewall, blocking ports, or has New Zealand done something to upset Sun ? The Sun Download Center contains important safeguards to ensure c...
Web/Tech
Internet Explorer has Alzheimer's, history gone?
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...
Comedy
xkcd on computing Depth
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...
Is this band broad?
From www.speedtest.net
Dial-up internet is awful!
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...
Cool Software
Playing with the new browsers - IE8 & Chrome
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...
Feeds & Readers explained in a minute!
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...
Test Post for TypePad Support
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
TypePad
TypePad evolves, to be more like Vox!
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...
ActiveWords
A Cuil ActiveWord?
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...
Cool Hardware
George Dyson on computing history
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
ZoneAlarm + Microsoft's DNS patch = No Internet
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...