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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 15/11/2004 No matter how geeky one is, there are always times when it's not quite geeky enough. I knew I was in trouble on this front when I was sent a pointer to a chess set that had been made entirely out of 50 ohm radio frequency connectors.
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
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Blog Tuesday 16/11/2004 It's days like today that make you glad you're not a PR person. Actually, that's most days… but the worst sort of PR hell is caused by clients attempting to aggressively manage a story from a long way away.
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
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Blog Wednesday 17/11/2004 Scary stuff from Japan, where a study seems to suggest that computer use can cause blindness. I note that the researchers didn't say what it was that the subjects were looking at -- but it's clear that here's yet another way...
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
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Blog Thursday 18/11/2004 Later this week, Apple's opening its first European Apple Store in Regents Street. We sent Jo and new boy Alex down to the press preview day and got some great snaps -- and yes, the chap with the Apple logo shaved into the back...
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
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Blog Friday 19/11/2004 Sometimes it only takes the smallest thing to brighten up one's day. Take this apparently innocuous quote from the point man of the Sophos antivirus hit squad, Graham Cluley: "They [the emails] claim to come from a German 21 year...
[November 19, 2004, 16:55]
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Blog Monday 8/10/2004 Later this month, Isleham gets broadband. Like many rural villages in the depths of the English countryside, it's had to wait its turn -- but it's nearly time. Which means that today I get a phone call I've been fearing for years...
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
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Blog Tuesday 9/10/2004 I'm off to a hotel close to the Edgware Road today to chair a panel at Cal-IT, the California-meets-Europe show run by our European Technology Forum division. It's a good chance for businesses to swap ideas and contacts, and the...
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
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Blog Wednesday 10/10/2004 Vodafone is launching its 3G consumer phones today -- press event in the morning, big party in the evening as well as events across twelve European countries and Japan. This takes some organising, so it's a measure of the...
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
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Blog Thursday 11/10/2004 Mun is hard at work in his new Australian life. He's hard at play too -- but if you want the skinny on that, you'll have to ask him yourselves. The work side's fun enough -- his brand of passion for reporting has already been...
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
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Blog Friday 12/10/2004 So, farewell then, Winamp. Goodbye forever, Audion. This week has seen the final gasp from both -- the two MP3 players that got the ball rolling on PCs and Macs respectively have ceased development.
[November 12, 2004, 17:35]
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Blog Tuesday 2/11/2004 You may remember that last week, I took a pop at Podcasting, the latest technology enabler that will let people throughout the world discover they're no good at broadcasting just like they did with Shoutcast.
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
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Blog Wednesday 3/11/2004 You don't want to be reminded of Wednesday -- gloom, anger, and much swearing is the order of the day, especially among those who stayed up until 3am in the morning and went to bed still thinking that there was a chance…
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
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Blog Thursday 4/11/2004 The PDA market is a hard furrow to plough, but sometimes you have to wonder whether Palm is deliberately aiming for the rocks. Take the experience of Richard Perlman, who is one of the great and the good of the online world...
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
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Blog Friday 5/11/2004 We' ve had some daft things through the post here. A couple of years ago around this time, we got a set of loose fireworks as part of a PR campaign. We're not sure how legal that is -- oh, who are we kidding, we know exactly how...
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
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Blog Monday 25/10/2004 Tech journalism might seem like a riotous festival of bacchanalia lightly seasoned with acts of gross irresponsibility, but the truth is - we have standards. No, honestly. We have at least two.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
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Blog Tuesday 26/10/2004 We're off to London's glitzy Soho, to a huge art-deco bar with no fewer than nine enormous mirror balls dangling from alcoves in the ceiling. The occasion is Microsoft's launch of Windows Media Center 2005, and the company is...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
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Blog Wednesday 27/10/2004 The gong season is progressing nicely, and Dan Ilett is off doing his bit at the PR Week awards. The party goes well, with guest speaker Stephen Fry giving a good account of himself and the profession: "We're all whores and...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
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Blog Thursday 28/10/2004 Podcasting. Does it get you hot? The idea is that ordinary people like you and me produce a little radio show on their computers, send it out over the blogosphere or whatever, and then other people download it onto their...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
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Blog Friday 29/10/2004 This has been a good week for brains in vats - oh, and monkeys. First, researchers at the University of Minnesota managed to get a jar full of 25,000 rat brain cells to control a flight simulator: then, a team from the University...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
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Blog Monday 18/10/2004 There is little as unappealing as an ancient fart grumbling about the good old days. But it's good for you so pin back your ears, young squirts. When I were a lad, computers were fun.
[October 22, 2004, 18:05]
