When people watch me browsing they think I’m weird - even when I’m not on hatsofmeat.com - because my name is Chris and I am a selecting-things-on-the-screen addict.
When I’m reading something on the web I compulsively select and deselect text with the mouse. I’ll click and drag to highlight from the bottom of a paragraph, [...]
Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the [...]
It’s fantastic news that the Internet World exhibition is filling up at a record rate. But it also means that if you haven’t booked your place you really need to do it now. You can go direct to the Internet World site, or fill in a more basic form on the UKFast site that we [...]
Microsoft’s EU hearing began in Luxembourg yesterday and things went as expected. The software company’s lawyers claimed that the ruling was flawed, which came as no surprise. What did interest me was the use of figures about the sales of Windows XP Home Edition N, the without media player package they have been forced to [...]
The latest news from the Internet super brands arena is that eBay has been in talks with Yahoo! and Microsoft to assess the growing threat from Google.
A Times Online article cites a concern that Google has turned aggressive and is wielding it’s pocket full of cash in a dangerous way, buying and developing technologies [...]
News reaches me (hot from today’s Metro, courtesy of Mr Bowers) here at UKFast Blog Central that The Queen has received more than 20,000 birthday cards this year - and 17,000 emails. Looks like this new technology has finally filtered through to even the most established parts of The Establishment.
But of course, it’s not new [...]
Just the like world, the Internet grows as a set of communities. Many of the largest, the big portals are like the countries of the net and in order to participate in them we have to play by their rules.
EBay has just announced that it has a community of 200m. MySpace also has a huge [...]
Aside from the fact that we have Big Brother, deadlines, diets and one hundred different ways to get in touch with people electronically in order to tell them what a crazy fool they were last night, the one thing that distinguishes us modern folks from our ancestors is noise. We’re surrounded by it from the [...]
When you read statements like; “every day at least 400 credit card numbers are sold,” it’s easy to dismiss it off hand, that is until it happens. Then it feels like a real invasion of privacy, which of course, it is.
When looking for a new bank account or credit card provider, do you ask the [...]
Disclaimer: I know what ‘beta’ means!
Up until a few days ago I was using the new Windows Live Mail beta, instead of my usual Hotmail account. Now I’m back to good old Hotmail. Why? Mainly because the new system doesn’t work in Firefox. In my tricked-out browser of choice the whole Live Mail system is [...]