I started using Windows Live Messenger in the last few days, and I like it. At first I was disdainful of people I saw upgrading just because it was a shiny new version and they just want to have the latest thing. But then I found out about two new features it has, [...]
Reckon Sol and Ziggy are morons? Try your hand at being a monopoly telco with Nokia’s Network Tycoon Flash game. Messing with plan prices, voice and SMS rates and marketing budgets, you also get to scatter your cell towers around the town.
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Tonight I was disappointed to find that I wasn’t the first person to know about Wikimapia. It’s a collaboratively edited Google Maps mashup that lets you record places of interest with a description and tags. It’s the coolest thing ever.
Ever been using Windows and you stop to think for a minute resting your finger on Shift, then the computer makes a weird squeaking sound and then it says some crap about StickyKeys and you can’t type in lowercase anymore? Or use the numbers in the top row along your keyboard? Mm, yes [...]
Computers in real life are such a let-down. There’s no firearm-to-the-head augmented fellatio like in Swordfish, and there’s no animated 3D wireframe cities like in Hackers. If you’re looking at your digicam happy snaps you can’t just say “enhance” in the general direction of the computer to zoom in and identify the DNA [...]
As I discovered earlier today, if you accidentally leave your Google account signed in on another computer, anything that is searched for on that computer using Google will be recorded in your Google account’s Personalized Search Search History.
But what if you didn’t just leave your account signed in accidentally, but actually managed to remotely log [...]
Here’s a good example of why the “if you’re not doing anything wrong, why worry?” argument against privacy invasion is useless and misguided. Just because you aren’t doing anything illegal, does that mean you want your family to be able to see what you’ve been searching for without you realising? Of course not — [...]
Code names…how stupid! Or so I used to think. Naming servers fun names like Greek gods (ergh, ok that’s not really fun it’s just tired) or food (spaghetti, noodle, wasabi) seemed like good fun but not that useful. I didn’t really understand what project codenames (like Whistler, Yukon and Whidbey for Microsoft software releases) were [...]
Well, only just after that post it looks like I’ll have to challenge Daniel to use the new Whereis interface and tell me it’s not better, because it’s a LOT better thanks to some AJAX kinda stuff (and of course the new graphics that bring it well into 2002 :P). Clicking to re-centre the [...]
Daniel tonight told me that he hadn’t yet seen a good implementation of an ajax application, that they’re always too slow and the delay bugs him. I really don’t know what he’s talking about so maybe I should have clarified, although I think it’s possible that he’s used ajax on sites that aren’t so [...]