Over the last couple of weeks the DNS timeouts and lags I’ve been experiencing at home have made the web experience a little dire. My ISP is actually pretty darned good, but for some reason they seem to have glitches with their DNS servers every now and then.
I was against the idea for ages, but for some reason I’ve decided to start using it. Twitter was one of those things that I didn’t see a need for. Now I can.
I’ll be using it to keep track of ideas I have for blog posts as well as other things that I need to [...]
Regular readers of Dilbert are currently kicking and screaming about the site’s new Flash-based design. Personally I don’t mind it, but at the end of the day it matters not.
Why?
As the weeks roll by I’m finding that I have less and less time to chase up anything geek-related. I’m sure I’m not alone Responsibilities and life take over and that time which you could invest is now invested in other things, such as children
I’m dedicating this post to all those things [...]
Google Labs has a history of releasing some pretty amazing bits of software. Google Earth, Google Mail, Google Reader, Google Analytics, Google Maps and Google Docs are just a few of the graduates! It’s an impressive list to say the least. All of those applications do a fantastic job. I’m a huge fan of all [...]
In a previous post I had a bit of a combined whinge about MS downloads and bandwidth limits in Australia. Today I read a new article at SMH that made me even more angry.
This may come as a surprise, but living in Australia can have it downsides Right now I can only think of one, and that’s (part of) the reason for this post.
We may have constant sunshine, lovely beaches and a lifestyle to die for, but our broadband just sucks. That’s a fairly sweeping statement, so [...]
When I started my new gig on the 15th of this month, I was handed a new laptop to do all my work on. It’s a nifty little gadget with 3GB RAM! Very schmick. There was one catch..
… see, the company is migrating to Vista, which means I have to use it too. A while [...]
I have a few questions for you:
How would you feel if TV channels changed automatically because you weren’t paying attention to the ads?
Would you like it if your newspaper closed by itself because you were reading the articles but skipping over the classifieds?
How happy would you be if you were kicked out of a cinema [...]
