Bit disappointed in John Naughton today ... first he gets the year wrong for the first commercial SMS — it was 1992 regardless of when your phone supported it, John. Then, in today's new spangly Berliner-format Observer , he states that the Internet was "developed between 1973 and 1983" . The first international connection — […]
At last, someone at Google has realised something that I and others have known about for ages: it takes ages to install applications on Windows because everything is disparate and has its own installer. On Ubuntu , I can fire up a simple Add Applications applet which allows me to browse a selection of apps […]
Top Gear: Gran Turismo 4's Laguna Seca in a Honda NSX versus Real Life — watch Jeremy Clarkson put in a respectable time on the PlayStation2, then completely fail to match it in real life.
TiVo Series 3 has landed. How sweet — and expandable — does this DVR look? If only a UK release would happen again ...
Mothballed last year, the Observer Blog has returned in preparation for the Sunday newspaper's relaunch into the Berliner format — the same process its stablemate The Guardian successfully went through in September 2005 . newsdesigner.com has more details on the relaunch .
Microsoft WMF Patch — it's live and available .
Pending an evening of the Indiana Jones trilogy and a shitload of drinks, I humbly plagiarise and present: To Prepare You'll need the following: The Indiana Jones trilogy, preferably on Blu Ray: A movie playback device, and a humungous TV (surround sound system recommended) Bunch of friends who aren't surly drunks A shitload of alcoholic […]
West Wing actor John Spencer died yesterday aged 58 after suffering a heart attack. He played Chief of Staff Leo McGarry in The West Wing, one of my favourite characters in the show. Apparently he had appeared in 7 of the first 14 episodes of Season 7 before he died. The show is in hiatus […]
Robert X. Cringely casts a critical eye at Oboe, the mp3tunes locker service, asks Michael Robertson (he of mp3.com and Linspire) how he thinks the business can be profitable, and looks at how Apple may be doing something similar. read more | digg story