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YouTube googles for gold...
Blog Oho - we all knew that there was much more behind the scenes to the GooTube deal than met the eye and now (via Dave Farber's Interesting People mailing list) comes a fascinating and totally uncheckable inside track on what happened to whom and why.
[October 31, 2006, 15:59]
Dell trumpets green moves, Greenpeace begs to differ
Blog The computer maker has announced today that is has become the first in its industry to achieve 80 Plus Gold-certification for a server product. Dell claims the new 80 PLUS Gold power supply certification meets July 2009 Climate Savers targets for...
[June 25, 2008, 17:25]
Five-Year-Old Boy Detained by the TSA
Blog Swiss banks merrily accepting Nazi gold due to a policy of anonymity, even though that gold came in the form of teeth pulled out of people's heads. I always get an icy chill in my stomach when I hear stories of bureacratic process taking over from...
[January 11, 2008, 17:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So were the millions of dollars he'd made and converted into gold and platinum bars — these were due to be handed over to AOL, but since neither they nor Hawke were available for comment, the company is still empty handed.
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Nanowires!
Blog Then, print a pattern of nanometric gold dots on it - I'll get back to how IBM do that later. Take your wafer covered in tiny gold particles, heat it up until the gold melts and stick it in an atmosphere of a gas containing more silicon.
[June 24, 2008, 12:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I wish I had a gold medal to award for common sense in technology. Thursday 15/1/2004 Not that there'd be much call for it -- I could probably manage a four-yearly ceremony, like the Olympics -- but today I'd be lighting the flame and polishing my...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
Is Dell being paid to be green?
Blog Following from an earlier post around Dell's claims this week that it had achieved 80 PLUS Gold power supply certification for a server product, I have done a bit more digging (well, reading really) After learning on the 80 PLUS web site, that the...
[June 27, 2008, 16:34]
Skype 3.8 Release Available
Blog Skype has released 3.8 "Gold" for Windows. They made one change that is half-good. Incoming contact requests pop up without the picture. That's a start. But why don't they get it? A new contact request from SexySandra or whoever doesn't need to pop...
[April 30, 2008, 14:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reports are filtering back from Dell's bash yesterday in Monte Carlo where Colin Barker, our man in the Saville Row suit and the gold Wednesday 7/6/2006 Rolls-Royce, has been dutifully taking notes. The bash was ostensibly to talk about Dell's...
[June 9, 2006, 18:40]
Smart surveillance network software for phones
Blog Yes, the country that brought us the cuckoo clock and a handy place to store any gold teeth or conflict diamonds we may have somehow chanced upon has now brought us software to link mobile phones together in a surveillance network.
[November 2, 2007, 15:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cute little tails, Cheeky grins, They're comedy gold - and they taste terrific. Friday 13/1/2006 So the world seems more interested in fluorescent pigs than entangled photons. I told those photons to get a better agent and sort out their image, but...
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
Look, another netbook!
Blog According to Toshiba, we can expect 'build quality of a premium standard', as well as a choice of colours — Cosmic Black, Champagne Gold or Bright Silver. With HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and others all on-board the netbook bandwagon, it's no surprise...
[September 19, 2008, 8:58]
Keep on rocking in the free code world
Blog But after covering some general session keynote highlights this morning I got dragged (willingly) into a restricted meeting with veteran rocker Neil Young - he of ‘Heart of Gold’ and ‘Keep on Rocking in the Free World’ fame - as he (and his...
[May 6, 2008, 23:51]
It's not electronic, it's not a card and it's not Christmassy, but...
Blog As part of a scheme to make young people more interested in nanoscience, researchers from the Haifa-based Technion research institute - or Israeli Boffins as The Age has them - have put an image of the entire Old Testament in Hebrew onto a 0.5mm...
[December 21, 2007, 15:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is the result of an anti-theft device designed to stop the time-honoured tradition of blocking up the coin return chute with a bit of carrier bag: the idea is that any returned dosh builds up until the blocker-upper returns, removes the bag...
[December 12, 2003, 16:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This time last month, there were hundreds of the things dangling their leads out of boxes and cupboards: now, you have to mug a passing teenager for his hands-free kit (curiously, exactly the opposite has happened to Laplink file transfer cables...
[July 16, 2004, 17:50]
Fun and games with OOXML
Blog Ecma and OASIS are "international standards", but ISO is the international "Gold Standard". Quick quiz - no referring. Who said. Well, its too early for other vendors to commit to this file format. After the BRM [Ballot Resolution Meeting - in...
[September 13, 2007, 9:31]
Time For Goverments To Come Off Line
Blog At the moment it's as though gold bars are being kept behind thin and foggy glass. Ok, now things are getting silly. Surely it's time our governments came up with a way for disconnecting themselves from the world wide web.
[August 11, 2008, 20:45]
Actor Network Theory Revisited
Blog The web has evolved at lightening speed, from an academic communication tool, to a fresh avenue for information media, through a new gold rush to stake out alternative retail territory, to an IT hosting platform and now onwards into………into what?
[June 7, 2009, 12:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog However, Larry has now put a sworn deposition into the court saying that he was promised — PROMISED — that the dragon would turn tail and flee at the first sight of Brave Sir Darl, leaving a Huge Pile of Gold for all to share (especially Larry).
[October 13, 2006, 19:35]
