Author: Gary

So, I’ve finally got an Xbox 360 (with my own money, not a loaner or a freebie). After a day mucking around with it, I’m really impressed. The dashboard is nice and simple, downloading game demos is easy enough and the backwards compatibility works, more or less (Halo 2 is ace, Black locks up from…

A man’s sitting in front of a PC. His wife’s looking over his shoulder at the screen, which displays the words “ME ME ME ME ME ME”. “I’m just updating my blog”, he says. OK, it’s not very funny the way I tell it. But when I saw the cartoon in Private Eye, coffee came…

The Guardian devotes page 3 to a story about Coldplay writing a theme song for the Conservatives. The back page carries a full page ad explaining a new service that enables you to scan your Nectar card with your mouse. Inside, BMW announces new pixel paint that makes your car look blurry to anti-dawdling speed…

There’s a superb piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, where Robert L Park offers the “Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science”. He goes into detail on each one, but here’s a summary of the list: 1. The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media. 2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is…

I get sick of site designs very quickly, hence the new gurning face at the top of this blog. Sorry if it’s put any of you off your lunch. As I’ve mentioned in the sidebar, the picture was taken by Glasgow photographer Iain McLean. He’s very good, and a nice bloke to boot. So if…

…but I am both!

A while back, I blogged about the problems of information overload: What I’d like to do is bring those programs together, to share a folder structure or tag system between mail, RSS and Web. That means when I’m doing Mag X’s news section, I can access all the material I need by clicking on the…

I can’t remember if I’ve posted this link here already, but in case I haven’t: Don’t Copy That Floppy! [Google Video]. It’s a superb anti-piracy advert that makes full use of the two key weapons in the fight against software piracy: bad rapping and worse haircuts. [Via UKResistance]

PC World is axing its commission-based scheme in order to improve customer service, says the Register. If true – the announcement’s a bit confusing, because on the one hand the staff won’t have commissions but their shops still do, so there’s bound to be some pressure still – it’s a smart move, because one of…

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