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Don’t Buy Microsoft.

Now I know that’s quite a blanket statement, so let me clarify.  You may hear me harping on about the problems with DRM.  People have cottoned on to this fact quite well in recent years, and now people are looking for music without drm (i.e. plain mp3) from amazon, play.com and even itunes.  This PC [...]

Fail Fail Fail

Saw this on failblog….. oh dear….

How dumb can you get?

Postman loses £130,000 savings to Nigerian internet scam after being duped by a friend he met on MySpace | Mail Online.

Seriously this guys gullability goes for bad to worse.  We really need to come up with an internet license which you can’t have if you daft, that should keep people who fill in friends emails [...]

Beat This iPhone

How have I not heard of this before?  People with their poser iPhones, the gphone may not quite have the best stuff as yet, but the power of open source will shine through.  This was on the gadget show tonight:

http://www.mobilizy.com/wikitude.php

It’s augmented reality.  Imagine google maps for mobile, except you hold your camera up to the [...]

Sack The Ministers

BBC NEWS | Politics | Sack Strictly judges – minister.

In a time where people are wondering about rising unemployment and paying their mortgages, food  and energy bills, the amount of political time being devoted to X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing is rediculous.

Sack the MPs for wasting tax payers money.  SORT THE ECONOMY!  Stuff crappy vote [...]

Enemy of the state style paranoia required

BBC NEWS | Technology | Keyboard sniffers to steal data

It seems like no matter what we do, we’re going to get data nicked

Die IE6 Die

» Facebook doesn’t really support IE6 » as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

Yes!  Facebook are kicking support for IE6 out the window in their update.  Hurray..  Something so widely used can’t help but force people to get rid of IE6.  IE6 is so broken that I can’t understand why on earth anyone would seek [...]

Don’t Do It Jerry

PC Pro: News: Microsoft enlists Seinfeld in Vista battle

Vista is rubbish, and people don’t want it.  Jerry Seinfeld is awesome.  Don’t tarnish yourself jerry..  Sadly more of vistas grime is going to rub off on you, rather than your greatness rubbing off on it.

Pirates and Emperors

My cousin sam posted this:

YouTube – Pirates and Emperors – Schoolhouse Rock

Says it all really..

Linux Media Center Edition

How to Install Linux Media Center Edition step by step. | 14 bits

This long video shows how to setup Linux MCE..  This is really coming together.  There’s some rough edges in the appearance. But this is way scalable.  This might be the fate of the lappy some time soon, given its small size and TV [...]