Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's a nice thought — briefly — to imagine having your home filled with the scent of a lavender field at dusk, or a tropical forest in bloom. Wednesday 23/8/2006 With the exception of certain Linux fans, smell has yet to feature strongly in the...
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
Physiotherapy Gets Virtual
Blog Greg Reger, a clinical psychologist at the Telehealth and Technology Center of the Defense Center of Excellence, is utilising a virtual world where U.S.soldiers can walk the roads of Iraq with a standard issued M-4 in hand, feel the shockwave from...
[August 27, 2008, 13:17]
KPNQwest collapse threatens Europe's Net
News Other companies scent opportunity: Vanco, a "virtual network operator" which sources network services for multinationals, has launched a "KPNQwest SWAT team" which promises a one-hour response time to concerned IT managers who contact it by email.
[May 31, 2002, 12:53]
Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 CTP#1 & CTP#2
Blog New Fresh Lemony Scent! (or Micro$oft decided to let the marketing hacks screw with XPE. What really cranks the whole thing was that after going to MEDC last year, after being told by the XPE MS people and believing(!
[August 14, 2008, 1:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Oddly, nobody seems too keen to talk about this: there are dark hints of projects being kidnapped and divisional infighting, and a steady scent of internecine politics. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record.
[July 4, 1998, 8:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Oddly, nobody seems too keen to talk about this: there are dark hints of projects being kidnapped and divisional infighting, and a steady scent of internecine politics. Still at the wettest Glastonbury on record.
[July 4, 1998, 7:42]
Show blog: IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008
Blog Back to the core news of the conference and there’s a rich scent of scepticism in the press room this afternoon as to whether all this talk of collaborative team development is coming from a company that itself may be argued to suffer from...
[June 2, 2008, 23:46]
News Schmooze: Bill Gates brings on the lurve machine
News Perhaps this will improve security by throwing those dastardly hackers off the scent. One of the hallmarks of our modern age is our tendency to rely on technology to express our romantic overtures, and Brits are expected to rack up more impassioned...
[February 15, 2002, 17:06]
Mitnick selling notorious laptops
News Crime may not pay, but an online auction of the two laptops used to hack major corporations could garner convicted cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick a tidy sum. In an effort to help finance a legal battle to regain his ham radio operator's license, the...
[October 3, 2002, 7:36]
Nano-nose sniffs out smallest scents
News Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee have claimed a new world record for weighing tiny amounts of stuff. Tiny gold-coated silicon bars two microns long and fifty nanometres thick were vibrated by heating them with a solid-state...
[June 12, 2003, 15:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Most of them have now been answered -- although there's still the scent of a standards tussle in the air -- but there is one that deserves a special place in the Zigbee FAQ. Monday 11/10/2004 ZigBee is starting to make waves -- which is just as...
[October 15, 2004, 19:15]
Google Wave — we're on it. And you can be, too...
Blog There is a very heavy scent of alpha in the air. Our first Google Wave invites have arrived, and we've spent the first hours of the day getting our feet wet in the surf (and you could join us: read on).
[October 1, 2009, 11:53]
Usability conference promises scents and sensible IT
Blog This is what looks like a very lively exhibition of over fifty projects, many of which involve things that move, glow, glimmers, shimmer, smell - there's something on scent communication - bleep and try very hard to be your plastic pals who are...
[August 19, 2009, 16:12]



