Dropsafe

chicagotribune Scattered among the $500 to $1,000 desktop computers available at Walmart.com, one machine stands out. It doesn’t have a unique design, but its price tag looks like a typo: $199. […] The cheap price reflects Wal-Mart’s buying power as the world’s largest retailer and is an aggressive gambit by a Taiwanese company that has

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The Lords Science and Technology Committee report found the internet was “the playground of criminals”. But the government did not agree with its suggestion that lawlessness “was rife” on the internet. Hoo-bloody-ray. Some sanity, for once…

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http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0710filemakermobile.html October 20, 2007 – Apple subsidiary FileMaker will be killing off its FileMaker Mobile product in next week, sources report. FileMaker Mobile 8, which is compatible with the newest FileMaker 9 software, allows Palm OS, PocketPC, and Windows Mobile devices to communicate with FileMaker databases. Sources report the proliferation of Web-ready phones, like the

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…and he is a caffeinated beverage, living in my fridge.

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I’m gobsmacked. I’ve just had my first audio-spam as an MP3 attachment. More, later…

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The late, great Douglas Adams posited the Shoe Event Horizon …when depressed, people tend to look down, and when they look down, they see their shoes. To cheer themselves up, they might buy themselves a new pair. Thus, in a generally depressed society, demand for shoes will rise. In the critical condition, demand for shoes

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When Oliver Morris and Hazel Ross play their violins, the normal response from those within earshot is applause. But their renditions of Mozart and Brahms prompted a less welcome reaction from officials at Manchester City Council, the threat of a noise abatement notice and a warning that their £15,000 instruments could be seized, if necessary

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Is at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/13/db1301.xml – covers a little extra ground.

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Sun’s just wrapped-up its Customer Engineering (CEC 2007) conference in Las Vegas; for obvious reasons I was not able to attend, but several weeks ago I had committed to present: IT Futurology What will happen when the MySpace generation grows-up? When employees want Facebook rather than a phonebook? When your monthly report is on your

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On route back from Worcester, Bart and I detoured back into Hereford to visit Dunkertons in Pembridge, whose products I’ve drunk since the mid 1980s, but which I’ve never visited albeit that it is only moments off the A44, the arterial road into Aberystwyth which was key to my existence for several years. It was

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Bart and I visited the Rollrights last night, and found considerable damage; the warden’s hut was burned down last year and replaced with a container, but this year a stone has been stoked with a burning tyre and set on fire, and a piece has broken off of it; some muppet has more recently been

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