March 07, 2009
Fifty years ago Philip Roth claimed that 'the actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures daily that are the envy of any novelist'. In today's media-saturated world this is more true than ever, as epitomised by the tragic story of Jade Goody. By Gordon Burn Halfw...
The Guardian World News
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February 25, 2009
On this week's show: Relly Annett-Baker talks about good copywriting, Paul learns how to be a more efficient designer and we look at the ultimate website launch checklist. Download this show. Launch our podcast player Housekeeping SXSW Boagworld is doing loads of good stuff surrounding this years SX...
Boagworld web design podcast
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The giant mobile-telco bazaar has come and gone for another year. The pre-event fear about footfall seemed overplayed - everywhere was still crowded, if slightly less crowded than last year. The merchants were also out in force with their stands as huge and shiny as ever - perhaps there was slightly...
Telco 2.0
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February 24, 2009
Filled in from laptop - Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:35 AM Been waiting at the doctors office for about 30 minutes now - longer time than usual to get shots. BHK is getting blood work done - I’m more peeved that she has to wait than me - she has been fasting since last night and probably has...
Scotto's Wall Scrawls
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February 23, 2009
It’s this kind of thing that Geekrant was devised for. I’m boycotting Pinnacle products from here on in. Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus is pretty good. Good enough that I don’t feel the need to upgrade to the latest and greatest. It handles all the video formats I use quite well. It grabs...
Geek Rant dot org
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Daniel
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February 21, 2009
The analogue world has shredders that chew up and spit out paper documents as a secure way of erasing the existence of a document beyond recovery. Burning is even more secure. But what about in the digital world? Most folks don't realize that deleting a file on their computer doesn't erase it. All t...
BARRY'S BEST COMPUTER TIPS - They'll Change Your Life
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February 17, 2009
Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), is a technology that allows you to make telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analogue) phone line. The practical upshot of this is that by using some of the free VOIP software that is available to make Internet phone call...
The VoIP Mag
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February 16, 2009
Neil McCormick, who is one of the speakers at May's U2 Conference in New York, wrote up a review of the album, with a little help from Bono (which is at the very end, if that is all you're interested in reading). I put the review behind a cut, but here's the link as well: http://blogs.telegraph.co.u...
U2 LiveJournal
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February 13, 2009
Finished playing Andrew Plotkin's "Shade"! Eeeee! I only had to resort to hints/walkthrough twice! Whoever said it's creepier the second time around was right. (Other than my embarrassment at needing hints.) Also: Shade and Interactive Fiction [Waxy.org]. My hypothesis about the ending: "You" in the...
Verba Vita Est
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February 12, 2009
The following post is a guest post by the VC Cafe, a leading website focused on privately held, VC funded Israel companies. The Mobile World Congress 2009 will take place in Barcelona next week (Feb 16-19), under the big cloud of uncertainty that the current economic downturn presents to the mobile ...
Israel Opportunity Investor
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