Key, dongle, stub, stick. What do you call your USB… thing?
Oct 13 2008
Posted by Martin as General Technology
Most regular computer users are familiar with them - the USB flash drives that we carry our data around on. Useful for everything from transferring files between computers to, er, less legal forms of file sharing they’ve grown in popularity just as fast as their price has dropped. About five years ago when I bought [...]
Today I had to convince several teenage girls that the end of the world wasn’t imminent. The students of the school I work at had just heard about the Large Hadron Collider and were now sure that tomorrow morning the entire planet would be sucked into a black hole somewhere on the French/Swiss border. I [...]
Give Microsoft a chance, Seinfeld and Gates could be a winning team
Sep 06 2008
Posted by Martin as General Technology, Media, TV
Over the past 24 hours there has been much debate online as to whether Microsoft’s new ad campaign is any good or not. The general view across many of the major blogs is that Microsoft have wasted a huge amount of money on a dud. There’s Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates, a discount shoe shop and [...]
I’m not the world’s most ardent Apple supporter. I didn’t unquestioningly buy into the iPhone, for example, I held off until it had GPS and installable apps, two things any decent smartphone should have in 2008. That said, I do appreciate their high-quality products with a usually problem-free hardware-software interface. My MacBook, iPhone 3G and [...]
