Hype
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]