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What Happened to 'Don't be Evil'?
Some will say that the writing has been on the wall for a while, but the unashamed withdrawl of services people have already paid for involved
in this is the last straw for me. I will probably keep checking my gmail account for the forseeable future, but it's time to make sure all the important information is saved on my home system and its ( Read more... ) -
MBNA credit cards
These people (corporately) are morons ( Read more... ) -
JPC revisited
A while back I posted about a PC emulator written entirely in portable java.
The report here on their web page indicates that it has now been open sourced. From the zip file it seems to be actually GPL v2. Now all I need is time to have a proper look at the source to see exactly what is there. -
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The silly season has started early this year. Members of the government are forever coming up with ludicrous ideas, but two of them seem to have outdone themselves with thisI don't understand why they think anyone actually wants to celebrate being British. I certainly don't ( Read more... ) -
AACS in trouble again
This makes me smile. I have bought lots of commercial CDs and DVDs over the last 25 years. Enough so that I don't _need_ to buy any HD or blu-ray ones ( Read more... ) -
Cool Geekery
From The Register yesterday.
The physics bods at Oxford have produced an x86 emulator written entirely in Java, and have put up a demo of it that runs in a browser which boots and has several runnable games in the emulated C: drive. Not clear if it will ever be freely available, though:-(. The demo is
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Microwave advice requested
This morning whilst trying to cook porridge, I found that the element in my microwave has died. If I was driving, I might try to get it fixed, but I can't really afford to be without one ( Read more... )