Archive for April, 2009
Technology & The Economy: Part 2.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Windows 7. It’s really just around the corner, especially with how time seems to move so much quicker these days. The public ‘Release Candidate’ will be released in May – supposedly. And at this point in time, there’s a lot of speculation around the ‘hype’ of Windows 7′s ability to perform on older hardware. Vista [...]
Great Southern Land
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Whilst we await the 2nd installment of Kris’s musings about the economy, I wish to share some interesting things about my last week. See, my wife, myself, my brother and his girlfriend recently made an (almost) 3000km trek across the country to visit my parents in Adelaide. Now, my car is just a normal car. [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 1.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009The world-wide economy is – interesting – to say the least. We’ve had the credit bubble go *pop*, the subsequent mass hysteria of everyone pulling money out of investments so fast (thanks to the wonder of technology: High speed Internet and Internet banking) causing entire countries to become bankrupt, and generally society starting to panic [...]