Archive for April, 2007

Cooking with apple

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have had my apple macbook for several months but just recently I have noticed that it’s been getting hotter underneath than is comfortable for it to just sit on my lap. A rather useful utility smcFanControl sorted the [...]

10Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

What is this thing called Web 2.0?

In 2006 and 2007 similar amounts of hyperbole and cash are being lavished on innovative net start-ups playing around with Web 2.0 technology, the name given to the second coming of the web. But has anything changed or are we about to see another crash?read more | digg story

9Apr2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued

Digg Traffic vs Google Traffic or “Stating the bleedin’ obvious”

I was just reading the Chitika blog after finding the article linked from Digg. It’s a short article showing that traffic from Digg is much less likely to click adverts than google. The relevant data being Google CTR is 0.97% vs Digg at 0.30% which although an interesting number it should not shock anyone. Google [...]

9Apr2007 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

Moving my blog

I made the decision several days ago that I would move my blog onto WordPress after finding lots of flaws in the blog software I was using before. The troubles started with the fact that my VPS supplier had mySQL version 3 installed which was not going to work with the latest WordPress version. I [...]

8Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

What school computer departments used to look like

I was looking on my old secondary schools website and I came across some old pictures of the computer department. It started out with a Altair 8080b which is now in a museum! We had several Pertec drives which used to crash constantly due to the dusty air in the school.
Each drive platter in the [...]

3Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Gary McKinnon extradition fully justified?

Was reading about Gary McKinnon and his fight to stop his extradition to what can only turn out to be a very biased prosecution in another country. He has a lot of online support and I was completely behind his campaign until I found a quote today.
When speaking about looking for UFO evidence (which made [...]

3Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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