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Another day, another Google service
Today, it’s Google Reader: essentially GMail for RSS and Atom feeds. It’s quite nifty.
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The Itsawoman Supplement
My mum needs to get some decorating done in her house, so she asked a decorator to give her a quote. It’s not a big job: a couple of ceilings, a hallway and two rooms. The quote for that little lot? £160 for paint, and a further £1,600 for labour. You could build the pyramids…
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Finland bans fair use
*sigh* The Finnish government voted yesterday to make it illegal to copy media, even for personal use, if you have to subvert copy protection to do so… under the new laws, not only will copying for personal use become illegal, so will possessing, distributing or advertising tools that break copy protection. P2PNet points out that…
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Fun and games
I’d love to do games journalism: gaming is a hugely exciting art form, it’s driving the development of hardware, it isn’t taken seriously enough by the mainstream media, blah blah blah. Unfortunately I’ll never be able to do it, because I’m rubbish at games. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a first person shooter, an arcade…
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All the news that’s fit to print
You’ve got to love Glasgow’s Evening Times newspaper, whose website can be relied upon to cut headlines short. For example: Mind you, this sport headline suggests they’ve been watching my inept attempts at gardening: Tangent: have the people behind the Sunday Mail website actually seen any web pages since 1996?
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Could it be true?
Could Duke Nukem Forever, the longest-delayed game in the history of gaming, actually be due for release Real Soon Now? The Inquirer reckons so: Amazon is listing it with a December release date.
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Harvey Danger and Bittorrent
I know sod-all about the band Harvey Danger, but their decision to release their latest album via Bittorrent seems to have paid off: as I write, it’s the most popular music download on Torrentspy. It’ll be interesting to see what effect if any this has on sales of the physical CD.
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Unwrapping my Mac Mini
As I mentioned last week, I ordered a Mac Mini to tide me over while my ailing Powerbook goes in for surgery. Now that I’ve had the chance to play with it it’s a pretty nifty bit of kit, although setting it up wasn’t entirely smooth. A few random notes: * Bit of a quality…
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Google Office
Various reports suggest that Google’s going to announce a StarOffice-based office suite later today. Interesting…
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Writing jobs at Future Publishing
I meant to post this link ages ago: if you’re interested in staff jobs with Future Publishing, you’ll find a list of current vacancies here.