Does a tiny 16-in-1 USB2 card reader REALLY need foam rubber adhesive feet?
First things first...
Happy birthday, World Wide Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7373717.stm
I'm wary of becoming misty-eyed in a public (virtual) space, but this is actually a somewhat significant year for my personal relationship with Internet-based technology - at least as far as humankind's ongoing obsession with decimal anniversaries is concerned. So whilst I may well be twisting the cap off a bottle of Jacob's Creek Shiraz Cabernet 2006 later on (the cork must now be viewed as redundant, superseded tech) to toast fifteen years of the WWW, in a month or so - the precise date is currently a little hazy - I might be doing something similar again, to mark a decade of regularly faffing about online (often in less than exalted company) as though cyberspace were some vast, global adventure playground...
Photograph courtesy of astartesyriaca, split infinitive courtesy of The Grammarbusers - currently on tour.
Those of you who subscribe to astartesyriaca's posts (and/or haunt the relevant message boards, online communities/hang-outs, etc.) will probably already be aware that I've been road-testing some funky new kit for the past week (specifically the Asus EEE PC), and re-invigorating my allegedly geeky credentials by getting down 'n' dirty with Linux once again, after being a Micro$oft Windows slave for far too long. So much has already been enthusiastically written, screencapped, shouted, and uploaded to YouTube about this mini marvel of a laptop that it seems pointless to add to it all, frankly, so I won't bother. At least, not here...
There are some "issues" and quirks relating to minor, tangential aspects of the interface, and the slightly weird joy to be derived from plugging long-abandoned USB peripheral devices into the thing, which may surface elsewhere. However, goofing off about fifteen flavours of MPEG-encoded files discovered on old Compact Flash memory cards which hadn't seen the light of day since I used to wave my (relatively) ancient HP Pocket PC about down the pub probably represents blog content for the seriously life-retarded. You won't want to go there, and I certainly don't. Well, not until after the fourth glass, anyway...
Have a good (Bank holiday for UK bods) weekend, everyone.
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Edit: The URL says it all...
http://londonist.com/2008/05/boris_wins.php
Happy birthday, World Wide Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7373717.stm
I'm wary of becoming misty-eyed in a public (virtual) space, but this is actually a somewhat significant year for my personal relationship with Internet-based technology - at least as far as humankind's ongoing obsession with decimal anniversaries is concerned. So whilst I may well be twisting the cap off a bottle of Jacob's Creek Shiraz Cabernet 2006 later on (the cork must now be viewed as redundant, superseded tech) to toast fifteen years of the WWW, in a month or so - the precise date is currently a little hazy - I might be doing something similar again, to mark a decade of regularly faffing about online (often in less than exalted company) as though cyberspace were some vast, global adventure playground...
Photograph courtesy of astartesyriaca, split infinitive courtesy of The Grammarbusers - currently on tour.
Those of you who subscribe to astartesyriaca's posts (and/or haunt the relevant message boards, online communities/hang-outs, etc.) will probably already be aware that I've been road-testing some funky new kit for the past week (specifically the Asus EEE PC), and re-invigorating my allegedly geeky credentials by getting down 'n' dirty with Linux once again, after being a Micro$oft Windows slave for far too long. So much has already been enthusiastically written, screencapped, shouted, and uploaded to YouTube about this mini marvel of a laptop that it seems pointless to add to it all, frankly, so I won't bother. At least, not here...
There are some "issues" and quirks relating to minor, tangential aspects of the interface, and the slightly weird joy to be derived from plugging long-abandoned USB peripheral devices into the thing, which may surface elsewhere. However, goofing off about fifteen flavours of MPEG-encoded files discovered on old Compact Flash memory cards which hadn't seen the light of day since I used to wave my (relatively) ancient HP Pocket PC about down the pub probably represents blog content for the seriously life-retarded. You won't want to go there, and I certainly don't. Well, not until after the fourth glass, anyway...
Have a good (Bank holiday for UK bods) weekend, everyone.
____________________________________________
Edit: The URL says it all...
http://londonist.com/2008/05/boris_wins.php