From the monthly archives:

January 2006

However much I love Lowri Turner, I don’t want her on my TV set

January 30, 2006

EDIT: In the original version of this post, I mistakenly said that Lowri Turner had issued divorce proceedings against her ex-husband, Paul Connew, on the grounds of his adultery. This was based on a misreading of a report about divorce – in fact, the "Lowri" refered to was Lowri Hartson, ex-wife of Wales footballer John [...]

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Massive Spaces update

January 27, 2006

Microsoft has released a massive update to MSN Spaces, including some really nice features – for example, the limit on the amount of pictures you can have has changed, so you can now upload 500 per month for free instead of having a total of 30MB.

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Live Contacts – rather neat

January 27, 2006

Live Contacts is a kind of Plaxo Lite, done via MSN Spaces and working with Hotmail or Windows Live Mail contacts. Very neat.

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Why don’t Mac sites take security seriously?

January 27, 2006

The Mac is a safer computing platform than Windows. It has had no serious malware problems. By design, it’s more secure than Windows thanks to its smart use of user and administrator privileges. Mac users are right to be happy about the choice they made for security reasons. Yet sometimes pieces appear in the appear [...]

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Spam – solved?

January 25, 2006

Todd Bishop writes about whether the spam problem has been solved, as Bill Gates predicted it would be: Two years after Bill Gates’ famous statement about solving e-mail in two years, has the problem been solved? The short answer is that Microsoft says yes, based on its definition of the word, while others say no. [...]

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Testing, please ignore

January 17, 2006

Just a quick test to see if Bleezer works.Technorati: bleezerdel.icio.us: bleezer

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Where to find the QuickTime Installer

January 15, 2006

Paul Mison kindly mentioned in a comment on one of my previous posts that there’s still a downloadable, standalone QuickTime installer, which you can find here.

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Computer makers – stop this please!

January 14, 2006

After Kim’s post about the insane software crap that comes with peripherals, it’s worth reminding ourself that computer makers are at least as stupid. Omar Shahine recounts his story in “my sony vaio”: I LOVE this laptop for many reasons. It’s sexy, small (and I mean small), light, has the thinnest LCD I have ever [...]

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How fast was that Mac again?

January 14, 2006

Lovely as the new Intel-based Macs are (and tempted as I am by the iMac), those performance figures – 2–5x the speed of current G5’s – always looked a little suspicious. In “The Mac performance shell game” Paul Thurrott links to the following from Infoworld: Apple used multiprocessor benchmarks to skew the performance advantage that [...]

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VW presses ridiculous – and possibly spurious – claim against artist

January 13, 2006

Boing Boing reports that a US artist received a letter from VW demanding that he remove from sale and from a web site images he’d drawn of a VW Beetle built from insects. I’m a supporter of intellectual property rights in general, but cases like this make me very angry, because they bring the entire [...]

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