Back in December I posted about my quest to find a multiregion capable HD DVD or Blu Ray player.It was a very frustrating quest, but not nearly as frustrating as the entire HD DVD vs Blu Ray format war. As a consumer I felt like "piggy in the middle".However, in the last couple of weeks the format war between HD DVD and Blu Ray seems to have almost drawn to a close, as Warner … [Read more...] about Multiregion Blu Ray – A Reality?
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Email Standards Compliance Yahoo Good – Google Bad
It seems that Yahoo is going to make an effort to comply with standards for their webmail service, which is excellent news.Of course in typical "we know better" fashion it sounds like Google is ignoring standards yet again. Of course they still hide the source IPs as well ...If you just send plain text email then none of this will probably matter that much to you, but once you … [Read more...] about Email Standards Compliance Yahoo Good – Google Bad
Essential Mac Software For A Student?
My sister's boyfriend gave her an iBook G4 for Christmas. The spec isn't bad and I've been updating it and installing a few bits and pieces for her today. Since she's a fulltime student she needed some form of word processing package, so I opted for NeoOffice, which is a Mac port of OpenOffice. I also installed Firefox and Acrobat Reader. As far as I know she only uses MSN, … [Read more...] about Essential Mac Software For A Student?
IPv4 Space For Sale?
One of the hot topics at the moment is the exhaustion of ip4 space.While this may not sound very exciting to "normal" people the impact it could have on you might be quite painful. If ISPs have to pay a heavy premium for more IP space as their networks expand, then the end users may be forced to pay a premium.Jay Daley, Nominet's CTO, has an interesting post on the Nominet blog … [Read more...] about IPv4 Space For Sale?
Testing Saves Time
Over the past few evenings I've been working on a new site / project. Since the backend software allows me to "easily" add new fields to the database I did. Of course I didn't test the link submission form after the last update / addition, so it broke.Moral of the story - testing things saves time.If I'd taken an extra 30 seconds to make sure that the update was working it … [Read more...] about Testing Saves Time