Saturday, January 31, 2009
One of my more popular posts of yesteryear described the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (viz. 'Seas of Plastic Rapture'), a huge mass of synthetic waste which seems to be threatening to completely envelope the Earth.
It's a little hard to picture mentally so I was delighted to come across this graphic representation in The Independent recently [...]
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Million dollar wooden laptop
It's true I have been described as a gadget freak before. However the only people who would call me that are, and this is crucial, people who have no gadgets at all.
And it somehow always seems like an insult though I'm not sure why. There is a tendency to think of gadget [...]
A call to arms
HEY!
Get back to work.
Many people have expressed this urgent imperative in person. Some through email, some through comments on the blog, more through casual disdain and scornful glares over a pint glass.
But it was old man Bock himself who set me straight the other night in Nancy Blake's after retiring to the [...]
Friday, November 21, 2008
Never again! I promise!
Having been recently hoisted on a long petard of my own making [see Lame Duck article], I thought I might make mention of one Martin Eisenstadt, a fake blogger and political personage that had the mainstream media completely fooled.
I guffawed greedily when I heard that Sarah Palin hadn't known that Africa was [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Ignore Firefox at your peril
Ryanair have decided that, rather than continue using the old reliable Java platform for their route map, they will now use Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight application. Microsoft developer and blogger Ronan Geraghty announced this cheerfully last month, with words like 'cross-browser, cross-platform,' while knowing full well the adverse cross-traffic it had been [...]
The new search engine created by ex-Googlers is pure FAIL at this point. I messed about with it for a while and couldn't find anything I was looking for. The ridiculous magazine layout is awful, it's a format completely unsuitable for serious research. And they will have to mightily improve the speed of the interface.
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I\'ve been in more bars than this
A quick traffic update on the blog front.
I don't pay too much attention to my own numbers, it's the same old crowd every week that drops in for a chat and a smart comment. Everyone else who skims this site seems to be afraid to open their mouths–I know [...]
Go here and read this now. I've been saying it, you've been thinking it. This guy nails it.
SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2007
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