Everybody knows by now that Hasbro is suing the makers of the Scrabulous, and managed to get them to shut down.
I think Hasbro should buy Scrabulous instead of suing them. It’s an ideal solution - the makers of Scrabulous get rewarded for an innovative bit of programming, Hasbro gets the audience that it wanted in [...]
Started by three former employees of Google, Cuil (which they want you to pronounce as “cool”) claims to be the world’s biggest search engine, indexing more pages than everybody else put together.
At least, that’s the theory.
It seems like Cuil’s primary marketing strategy is Google bashing. They are very careful to point out that they [...]
The Colossus Mark II was one of the first modern computers ever built, way back in 1944, and used to break cryptographic codes intercepted by the allies. When the war was over, Winston Churchill ordered the machines to be destroyed.
Now, through the efforts of a man named Tony Sale, a working copy of the [...]
Ever since reading Ben Bova’s Cyberbooks, I’ve been waiting for electronic books to take over the world. The Amazon Kindle didn’t much impress impress me, but I just love the design for the new OLPC XO-2. If the design stays the same, then I’m definitely getting one for reading ebooks.
On a related note, what are [...]
There’s recently been quite a buzz about the recent research that suggests that fluid intelligence can be improved by training working memory.
If the original article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (or PotNAoSotUSoA as it’s more affectionately known) is too technical for you, try the articles [...]
After having cleaned out 50 spam comments in one day, I decided that enough was enough.
So, after 10 minutes of hard Googling, coding and theme adaption, my blog is finally making use of the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin.
It’s quick, it’s simple, and it Kills Spam Bots Dead because it makes them Eat Flaming Death.
I saw these JetFlash V30 4GB USB Drives on Kalahari.net a week or so ago. I checked around, and at R150 for 4GB, it looks as if they’re pretty much the cheapest USB drives around at the moment. So I ordered two yesterday, and they arrived about an hour ago.
They only actually store 3.8 GiB, [...]
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I arrived early, a small miracle considering the traffic in Joburg, and my temporally incongruous tendencies. (”I’m not late Ma, I’m just temporally incongruous!”)
Was a bit intimidated at first, but after I picked a table to sit down at, it turned out to be really interesting. (Translation: I managed to ambush people with my theories, [...]
It’s 27 Dinner time again, and this month it’s being held in Johannesburg. It will be held at Primi Piatti, Melrose Arch on 27 May at 18:30 for 19:00. There’s space for 100 participants, and there’s about 20 spaces left, so if you hurry, you can still attend.
Remember to join the facebook group for 27 [...]
Despite the low sales of the OLPC project’s XO-1, and the Windows/Linux troubles that the project is going through, it’s already had some beneficial effects. For one thing, it has firmly established a market for Linux subnotebooks:
The OLPC’s XO-1 runs (for the moment) a version of Fedora Linux
Intel’s Classmate PC runs a version of Mandriva [...]
