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High Performance Computing: A History
[31 Dec 2009]
Here's a recommendation from Amazon: As someone who has purchased or rated High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers ...
UStream Disconnects with Facebook
[02 Oct 2009]
UStream is getting into a bit of a muddle with its facebook connect integration. They have a flash chat app which sits above everything else ...
Twitter Doing Debug?
[24 Sep 2009]
Am I seeing things? Or missing something? There's what looks like debug output sat at the top of the timeline right now. Hasn't anyone in ...
AVG Free Antivirus
[15 Jun 2008]
Here is the link to Grisoft's Free Antivirus software: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5 (link updated 20 August 2009). The software does ...
Rory Cellan-Jones Outfoxed By Twitter
[30 Jul 2009]
BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has, in his own words, been 'caught out by 02 new tweeting service'. He received a text message ...
Polar Opposite Tweets
[06 Jul 2009]
Two people, both of whom I enjoy following, tweeted rather different things first thing this morning. It made me smile... James Bowthorpe ( ...
Internet of Things, All A-Tweeting
[24 Jun 2009]
Superbly geeky news item on BBC1 last night, with @ruskin147 interviewing @andysc in his auto-tweeting home. @andysc = Andy Stanford-Clark ...
Every Bing You Wanted To Know?
[03 Jun 2009]
Microsoft has released its new search engine into the wild, and is pumping some serious TV advertising dollars into the brand. Most of the ...
What is Wolfram Alpha?
[19 May 2009]
In the hyped-up days of Twitter and Facebook, we are all looking for 'the next big thing'. If that next big thing is being described as a Google ...
Countdown to a Special Timestamp
[09 Feb 2009]
Have you noticed that we're perilously close to a very special timestamp: 1234567890! This will actually happen on:
Friday 13 February ...
For Nerds Everywhere: The Loser Quiz!
[04 Feb 2009]
52/100: my Loser Quix score; not exactly a crowning achievement, but at least I was honest. Honest, I was :)
Windows 7 Needs Its Tyres Kicking
[17 Jan 2009]
Microsoft has released its new Operating System, Windows 7, and you can now download it free of charge to try it out. You don't get technical ...
Energy Efficiency in TV Broadcasting
[12 Jan 2009]
Internet-delivered TV vs broadcast TV: how does the electricity consumption add up? Following on from the recent rather dubious claims that ...
Google's Energy Consumption Analysed
[11 Jan 2009]
The Times reports on a study by a Harvard physicist: Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches. The researcher claims that two Google ...
123-Reg Whois Privacy
[11 Jan 2009]
Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the ...
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