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Today we’ve had further proof that The Register, aka el reg, is sliding further down the slippery slope into the toilet. Kieren McCarthy has posted a scaremongering article claiming that the .org top level domain has disappeared down a nice big black hole, due to incompetence by the new .org owner, the Public Interest Registry.…

For some reason, the toolbars and menu disappeared from Windows Explorer when I did my usual method of firing it up — Windows+E. Just as it was annoying me enough, I googled for windows explorer “missing toolbars” and found a utility to restore missing toolbars. It says it’s only designed for use with IE and…

Looks like some folk have found a way to extract playlists from people’s iTunes 4 players, thus letting anyone see what you have in your iTunes collection — but then some other folk have figured out how to let others download your music — voila, instant p2p app. The burning question is did Apple know…

In some alternate reality, this kind of thing would happen every day. 59 Democratic state legislators in Texas went walkabout to avoid voting on measures to aid their opponents. While the renegades were off in a Holiday Inn across the state line in Oklahoma, where Texas state troopers could only politely request that the legislators…

Fellow Scottish person Meg Pickard moved recently, and made this IKEA observation … drove to good old IKEA to pick up a few selected bits and bobs – a TV bench, couple of stools, desk lamp, and the usual extraneous guff. No tealights though, which is a first – as I’m sure I’ve mentioned here…

We‘re going nuts right now getting ourselves ready for the release of SmoothWall Corporate Server 3.0, so I haven’t had much of a chance to update the Matrix Reloaded daily stuff — hopefully at the weekend I’ll get a chance.

Some UK cinema release dates that drive me potty — The Matrix Reloaded — not out until 21st May 2003 Bruce Almighty — not out until 27th June 2003 Charlies Angels: Full Throttle — not out until 4th July 2003 Finding Nemo — not out until 3rd October 2003 The Italian Job — not out…

Further proof that the once-mighty slashdot.org is becoming, um, how do I say this tactfully — poo? CowboyNeal let through a story submission entitled “NASA Sending Probe to Saturn”, which discusses the joint NASA/ESA/ISA (Italian Space Agency) Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, and specifically Titan. It all sounds great, but the problem is that Cassini-Huygens was…

It looks like one of my long-running wishes is to come true in November 2003 — the Indiana Jones trilogy will be released on DVD! (local mirror copy, as IME Yahoo! stories tend to disappear and change URLs at random) Downsides Have to repurchase movies I already own No commentary tracks Upsides It’s Indy on…