Entries from October 2003

Right, I am in from my morning wake up stroll around the suburb and coffee session, it's time to get started on some work. That means getting online and doing the rounds on my favourites list.Edition 161 of A List Apart is out (already, seems like they only relaunched a few days ago...) and features an article anyone considering ... Read full entry

Judging by the amount of press it generates, it seems like we just love talking about the Big Bang Theory, and why not? We wouldn't be here now talking about it, if it er, hadn't have happened. Theoretically speaking that is.The latest revelations published in New Scientist suggest the big bang was more of ... Read full entry

Regular visitors here will recall I purchased a new PC a couple of months ago. With a chip speed of 2.8 Gigahertz, it wasn't quite the fastest model available, but I thought it was pretty good nevertheless.However according to another New Scientist article, a new processor has recently been developed, and uses laser lights, rather than electrons, to perform calculations. It seems rather ... Read full entry

This is obviously old news to those in the know, but Wil Wheaton has a weblog. Fans of the Star Trek franchise will of course know Wil starred as Wesley Crusher, an ambitious ensign aboard the Enterprise D, in The Next Generationseries.Although he doesn't extract too much milage from his acting past, he does offer some interesting insights into the Trek ... Read full entry

Cyber Bludging: the use of company internet access by employees for non work related purposes. This includes the gratuitous use of personal email, unnecessary web surfing, excessive use of chat and instant messaging services, online gaming, internet banking and shopping, running one's on the side-line business online, and of course blogging. The list goes on...It is estimated that up to 50 per cent of employees indulge in some degree of ... Read full entry

When I recently heard "Creed" Chris O'Hanlon speak a few weeks ago, he made an observation that the introduction of mobile phones in Japan had apparently instigated a change in the way the Japanese communicate with each other. He suggested that, thanks to text messaging in particular, formally rigid communication protocols were starting to become more flexible and open.Needless to say the presence of the mobile phone has engendered ... Read full entry

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? - come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.For some reason the final lines of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair seem to strike a chord when it comes to summarising the office work experience. ... Read full entry

While trawling through the newly relaunched A List Apart (nice work by the way) I rediscovered an article written about a year ago by Mark Bernstein offering advice to people who keep blogs and maintain other regular online publications.Mind you if ask me, 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web is probably something ... Read full entry

Why can't we let Princess Diana rest in peace? Yet how on Earth can we, when revelations about her life and death continue to be made, years after her death.Several TV documentaries investigating her death have recently been produced, and her former body guard, Paul Burrell, is due to publish a book making further rather ... Read full entry

Concorde is no more. It has been withdrawn from commercial operation, and the final much hyped flights have been and gone.While some people find this ending of an era a little sad, I imagine there will be others who may see things a little differently. My aunt in London lives under one of the flight paths into Heathrow airport, and there was no missing the ... Read full entry