Does anyone remember the great format war of the 70s between VHS and Betamax. It was a vicious take no prisoners war that left VHS the victor and betamax … well you don’t see them around anymore do you despite the fact that they had better quality. My strongest memory of it is going to [...]

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I was just looking online and although you wouldn’t know it looking at any Australian websites, its the Super Bowl tomorrow with the New England Patriots and New York Giants settling their differences tomorrow on the field. I’m not a fan of either or indeed the sport and at the risk of being tackled by [...]

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You know, there are certain things that you just take for granted in the world and when it comes to the internet one of them is having Netscape there to use when i want it and now i read on Techcrunch that AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development and the Netscape Blog confirms the end [...]

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I received a spam email today with the subject heading:
Large Special Pricing Liberal Collection Remedies
And with that subject I missed the fact that it was a spam email for a Canadian internet Pharmacy and instead was thinking that it was some form of post Federal Election humour making fun of the fact that Prime Minister [...]

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I am having a bit of an adventure in the unknown here this afternoon. Some months ago i bought a second hand Apple G4/400 with the intention of learning how to use an Apple and for the curiosity value also. Then i left it in its box for 8 months or so and kept a [...]

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I mentioned before that i have been playing Portal yesterday and have been finding some of the challenge levels exactly that.
But something has happened and i have found that the damn end credit song as got firmly stuck in my head (oh no) and everywhere i go i am hearing that damn song. It [...]

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I have just finished playing a Portal for a couple of hours. It was a free game that i got as part of the Orange Box and being free i left it alone since i figured if it was free then there was no rush to play it.
I got it wrong. Despite being a [...]

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Hey you, yes you. The one that is reading my blog via any number of available feed readers available out there including bloglines, newsgator, google reader and the rest. I love you reading via the feed and am not trying to change you doing that.
But. Yesterday I activated the Digital Fingerprint plugin on this [...]

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