Category Archives: Geek/Tech

We got new phones on Friday night, Hubby got a Droid Eris, I got the Motorola Devour. Sunday afternoon I exchanged the Devour for an Eris and I like it much better. This was what I didn’t like with the … Continue reading →

Got an interesting email from Project Honeypot this week. Project Honeypot works against spammers who harvest email addresses from websites, which is illegal in some countries. You can either install a honeypot on your site, or a link to someone … Continue reading →

Got my invite for Google Wave a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been playing with it a bit. Stable it is not. Bug free it is not. But fun? It could be. Useful? Maybe. My first impression is that … Continue reading →

<RANT grump_factor="snark"> Got Internet Explorer 8 on my Windows box at work, and I do NOT like it. It put a folder of "Microsoft Websites" in my Favourites, and I couldn’t delete them from the browser, kept getting "this folder … Continue reading →

Blogging about work under a pseudonym is a more risky business today than it was last week. There was a British police detective who blogged anonymously under the name NightJack and received an Orwell Prize for it. A reporter for … Continue reading →

Wired: Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets Brick by brick, Lego has been building its way out of the near bankruptcy it suffered around the turn of the century. It has done this by a seemingly simple strategy – making awesome … Continue reading →

(Link via Random Acts of Reality.) Wired UK: The hidden censors of the internet. Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each … Continue reading →

BBC News: Apple’s first Macintosh turns 25 The Macintosh – the first Apple computer to bear the name – turns 25 on 24 January. The machine debuted in 1984 and kicked off a product line that were Apple’s flagship computers … Continue reading →