This year mark's the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. A lot of people died when it sank A lot of them were Irish. A lot of them were poor. A lot of them were en route from Ireland to the "New World" to start over. So any "celebration" or other ceremony surrounding the Titanic needs to handled very tactfully. Tayto obviously didn't get that … [Read more...] about Marketing Gone Wrong – The Titanic
Iomega 3TB cloud drive has arrived
Home Network Storage Problem Solved (Hopefully!)
Over the weekend I discovered what was eating up most of my hard drive space and a few people made some suggestions via the comments here and also on Facebook. I didn't realise that a lot of network storage devices supported iTunes (and similar), so I hadn't done much research into my options. Based on what people were saying I went off and found that Iomega had several … [Read more...] about Home Network Storage Problem Solved (Hopefully!)
I Might Have Too Much Music!
I listen to music on my desktop machines pretty much all the time. While I have bought a few tracks via iTunes I'm still buying physical CDs. Recently I've been using Spotify quite a bit, but I still like being able to listen to the music that I have in my own collection. My desktop machine in the office has a pretty large hard drive, so this isn't an issue. Unfortunately my … [Read more...] about I Might Have Too Much Music!
How News Works
Someone posted this graphic on Facebook over the weekend and while it's about science news it's probably just as true about any type of news. The original is here … [Read more...] about How News Works