This afternoon I was reading Richard Branson’s autobiography when I came across an interesting fact about the word “bollocks”. In 1977 when Virgin Music were promoting the Sex Pistol’s album “Never mind the bollocks, here’s the Sex Pistols”, the police arrested the manager of one of Virgin’s stores under the Indecent Advertisements Act of 1889 […]
The topic of who runs the Internet and how it is governed is an interesting one. It also came up in Vint Cerf’s talk last week at Google. As I know very little of about how organisations such of ICANN actually operate I decided to ask a friend of mine to write something about the […]
Google has just bought startup Upstartle the makers of Writely, the online word processing software. According to the article this puts Google in direct competition with Microsoft Office, except they now need a spreadsheet program and something for doing presentations.
If it’s a spreadsheet Google want then how about wikiCalc, an online spreadsheet created by […]
On Tuesday evening I attended the open house at Google in London to listen to Vint Cerf give a talk entitled, “Tracking the Internet into the 21st century”. Vint, as I like to call him, was one of the inventors of TCP/IP so he was well qualified to give a talk on the future direction […]
Now Yahoo is getting into the whole pay for email scheme but then that isn’t too surprising when you consider that, according to SpamHaus, Yahoo is the fourth worst spam service ISP. If they have that much spam going through their network and if they could charge for it, that’s a lot of money!
Alex […]
Writing anything in Spanish on my Mac has always been a pain. It would help if I had a Spanish keyboard but I don’t. In my previous attempts I have always reverted to selecting the appropriate accented character from the character palette. It’s a slow process! However, I have just found out how it can […]
I just came across this and I’m amazed! Apparently AOL has announced that it is prepared to accept payment for incoming emails. These certified emails will skip the usual spam filters and will be guaranteed delivery. I don’t see how this will decrease the amount of spam people receive, as AOL claim. With a two-tier […]
I have recently started to use Microsoft Word on my Mac but only because it appears that the rest of the working world seems to use it. Actually, if I’m honest, I quite like it. It’s much better than the Windows version but I digress. There is something about Word that irritates me: there doesn’t […]