Where’s my kevlar umbrella?

October 1, 2002

http://www.msnbc.com/news/814100.asp?0dm=-23ET
“..blocks of ice which fall from clear skies and rip gaping holes in cars and houses..”
“..THE ICE BLOCKS tend to weigh more than 22 pounds (10 kilograms) and have been known to leave 5-foot (1.5-meter) holes in houses..”

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She canna take the poweerrr

September 30, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/technology/30SPEE.html?ex=1033963200&en=74ed671789e406ff&ei=5007
Do we need bigger, faster, better? ….
Hmm .. last upgrades I made were more memory (due to the beast known as Visual Studio.NET), bigger hard disk (ditto, in fact I have most of MSDN universal installed just because I can ) and CDRW (my MSDN comes on DVD, I dont have a DVD drive, [...]

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Google, making money and no intention of IPO

September 30, 2002

Nice to see a high-profile internet business making a profit, and even nicer to see the top people not looking to make a quick buck and fast-track their exit strategy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2288176.stm

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Broadband Blues

September 30, 2002

Looks like I am going to have to move house.
Why?
Because I can’t get broadband.
Blueyonder/Telewest say it will be at least a year before they can afford to dig up the road to put digital cable in, and my local telephone exchange trigger level is 750, with only 50 people expressing an interest.
Wireless is no where [...]

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An old scam, brought up to date (Paypal)

September 30, 2002

Paypal users hit by scam
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1470291
“A new round of attacks by online criminals is being directed at online payments service PayPal this week, including e-mails that inform account holders they need to re-enter their credit card data”
Just goes to show – never give out your information unless you are absolutely sure. This is just a more [...]

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Things to know before starting a software company

September 30, 2002

Things to know before starting a commercial software company
http://www.lockwoodtech.com/index.asp?PageId=articles/commercial_software.htm&TitleID=articles

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Mobile phone Java games and stuff

September 27, 2002

For lucky folks with fancy phones this might be interesting
http://midlet.org/jsp/index.jsp

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Naughty Kazaa, Naughty!!

September 27, 2002

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/27/084209.shtml?tid=98
“Kazaa, Morpheus and LimeWire are sneaking a new type of nastiness onto your computer, software that – without you even knowing it – redirects commissions for online purchases you make from other vendors you make back to them. “

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Ecademy

September 23, 2002

I checked out Ecademy a while ago, could even be a few years when I was working at my previous employer. Now I have returned to it there are some pretty cool new features so I am going to make use of them, the first being a blog and the second being the networking [...]

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