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Apparently Slate are running a series where people who don’t understand a subject write about it – at least that’s the only way I can make sense of this article about email. “Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write...
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So, it seems that Microsoft have launched a new service to download tunes onto your mobile phone on the go. Sounds good, except that while DRM is on its way out elsewhere, it still appears to be a strong part of the new MSN Mobile service. PC Pro, a popular...
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Yet again, I apologise to both of you who read this blog for abandoning it for so long. This time, I have a fairly good excuse – my mother contracted cancer early last year, it was only diagnosed in the middle of the year, and she passed away on Halloween...
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I'm going to pick on just one or two articles and snark them to death here, because I'm mean like that in a rush, but there are quite a few similar pieces out there which I could just as easily hang this article from. For those of you who have...
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Just found Ed Bott's report of the "crapware" free laptop that Sony have given him to review (thanks to John Gruber/ Daring Fireball ). I'm glad for Ed that he's so happy, and this is certainly a big improvement over the last time...
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In the grand tradition of this blog, I need to apologise for not posting again. I don't have much of a defence, except that I've been very busy at work for reasons that I can now talk about: My employer has finally received all the confirmations...
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Coming from a snark on John Gruber's site about Samsung's instinct going head to head with the iPhone in a hundred million dollar advertising campaign, I find the Gizmodo article with videos of the two phones side by side. And I have to say what...
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I just wanted to quickly gather up some links to articles I've found interesting of late. First of all, Claus Valca has some great posts over on Grand Stream Dreams. I want to draw your attention to a link roundup and comments post Claus made a week...
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As anyone who takes even a cursory glance at this site will know, I've been critical of Windows Vista for a very long time ( way before it became fashionable to bash it! Who says I'm not a trendsetter?). With Service Pack One being released I...
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Just some quick notes on what I've noticed, or been told by people I trust, about XP SP3 so far. My own experiences are based on a clean install at home and a few test upgrades at work (ah the benefits of being paid to do R&D). What XP Service...
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I was originally going to base the title on The Scorpions' " Rock You Like a Hurricane " but then I realised that "suck you" was open to all kinds of misinterpretation and wouldn't end well. Still on with what I really wanted...
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So it seems the fruits of Ray Ozzie's labour at Microsoft are starting to appear in public at last. And I for one say "Your point being...?" I'd love to link to their blog at this point to let them explain it, but it seems that their...
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I found this post on Lifehacker via Kurt Wismer , someone whose comments I've kept an eye on for since I started reading the alt.comp.virus newsgroup, which is quite a time ago now. Kurt seems to have the habit of annoying people by simply speaking...
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I'm going to make a note of issues I've encountered with the Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migration at work, and which didn't have immediately obvious solutions. It's been far too long since I posted anything that wasn't a thinly...
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I have to admit that some areas of the computer industry make me asahmed to be part of the IT profession at times. Take gaming - 1up.com's article on 5 botched game launches talks about Steam ... Yes, yes, we all love Steam now. By which we mean "It...