Public Perception
Tablets Revisited
Friday, October 2nd, 2009At the start of this year, I was introduced to a podcast called “TWiT” – This Week in Tech. It’s run by a famous American radio host Leo Laporte, and it involves him inviting various tech-celebs (people renowned in the tech industry) to talk about issues and news from the last week to do with [...]
The Personality of Computers
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was reading an article by John C Dvorak about the difference between Apple & Microsoft – and, critical as he usually is, he raises some good points. He made a single point that I thought relatively brilliant: Where is the Microsoft personality? In summary, he’s referring to how Apple has played the marketing game [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mythological reputations
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008I’ve had a hell of a month. I have been spending most of this year so far working with a large expensive piece of software called MATLAB. By expensive, I mean the student version is over $100 for the most basic package. By expensive, I mean the research package starts at $1000 and climbs somewhat [...]
License to Code…
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Update: If you think licensing doesn’t matter to you as a programmer… check out this article about how the PwnageTool developers may have lost control of their source code. Licenses do matter! You know, I really haven’t been alive for that along. Less than 3 decades still. And yet, I am often in awe at [...]
Hurts so sweet…
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Well… it’s been a long and seemingly unproductive day today. Anyone who’s ever used Linux for a period of time can probably relate to this feeling: you have an issue, but no matter what you do the program/problem wont behave as you would like. In my case, I have been attempting to get Steam, Wine [...]
Not high – just misinformed
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Recently, I saw the following on the cover of a computer magazine, which had the latest release of ‘Ubuntu‘ on it’s monthly DVD: Now, apart from the general ‘hype’ around anything that’s meant to be able to ‘kill’ or be a ‘better’ alternative to Microsoft’s latest operating system, the idea that this particular version/distribution of [...]