Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people copying and pasting the same thing to each other makes me long for a 'Shut up' button — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. 'Coz propah spelling is so last century.
OSX Mavericks installation warning
[2 comments] · 234 words (kills about 2 mins)One thing is conspicuously missing from the preamble to Apple’s OSX 10.9 free upgrade: how bloody long it’s going to take to install.
When I grow up, I want to be...
[1 comment] · 587 words (wastes about 3 mins)… a rock star. A demi-God. A prize-winning sci-fi author. A porn director. Clearly the state had other ideas for broadening my limited aspirations.
The ebook revelation
· 571 words (laps up about 3 mins)Are ebooks really the saviour of the printed word or are the corporations and standards bodies doing their level best to screw it up?
We can't connect to Outlook
[20 comments] · 646 words (munches about 3 mins)Ever since Microsoft forced “new Outlook” on everybody to replace Hotmail, users have been plagued with daily connection issues. The company maintain it’s not their fault.
Why it always rains in The Cloud
· 994 words (wastes about 5 mins)We’re told that cloud computing is the end of the road for bought software and piracy. That it’s the way of the future. So why does it feel like the 1990s all over again?
Centre of the software universe
· 602 words (devours about 3 mins)Here’s a novel concept: if I’m the user of a computer, shouldn’t I be the one in control of how I use applications I’ve installed?
Virus protection no no no no no
· 1483 words (devours about 7 mins)How effective is your virus/malware/rootkit protection? Do you think the software’s doing its job properly? I think otherwise.
Have the bad old days of SEO gone?
· 854 words (devours about 4 mins)Manipulation of search engine rankings leapfrogs between search aggregators and designers. Have we learnt anything in 20 years? It appears not.
