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Saturday, 24 December 2005
If you can read this, then you’ve got Tim Berners-Lee to thank. This is the bloke who invented the World Wide Web from a random thought:
“Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked?”
Tim has recently joined the blogosphere and his first post, entitled “So I have a blog” reminds us all of just how much the blog and wiki phenomena’s owe to his original idea.
I almost feel unworthy of saying this, but: Welcome to blogging, Tim.
Tuesday, 20 December 2005
For as long as the their executives continue to attend stupidity classes, Sony will continue to cop a battering from the consumers. Their Star Wars Galaxies online game has earned comments like:
“buggy, crap, dishonest, dumb, fraudulent, garbage, horrendous, horrible, ridiculous, sad, shambles, shocking, sucks, terrible, unplayable and worthless.”
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Friday, 16 December 2005
A couple of days ago I attempted to purchase some tickets for the second U2 concert at Telstra Dome, next March.
My decision to get the tickets online from Ticketmaster left me disappointed on two counts. First of all, the concert was sold out. Ok, no big deal. The band will be back in Melbourne another time. Worse is the fact that the Ticketmaster website is too dumb to tell you this upfront.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005
If you’re running one of the many flavours of Windows, you would have noticed that the more software you install, the slower your computer seems to get. A good system registry cleaner is an indispensable tool to keep your system running as it should.
After trying several different alternatives, I eventually settled on Registry Mechanic, a few months ago.
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Friday, 9 December 2005
After some six years of web development, I still get the “I want a website, how much will it cost” question on a regular basis. Over the years, I have learnt to reply with:
“How much would you like to pay for it?”
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