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Tim Palmer, Greatest Computer Press Reporter, Is Dead
News Gates was in London at the time, and some enterprising flunky, hoping to impress the boy god, introduced me as "the UK's most-informed writer". It was incomparable; he not only knew exactly (to the week, ten years later) what story ran in what...
[June 5, 1997, 15:47]
That
Talkback As someone who is also a writer, I'm always quite intrigued by the idea that, if I write something, I shouldn't have some sort of rights over what I've produced, and that other people can go off and make money off the back of my creative work.
[May 29, 2007, 9:14]
Mobile Phone Recommendations Please!
Forum I'm a freelance writer / copywriter, and it's important for me to be able to pick up my email on the move and generally stay in touch. Hi everyone, I'm new here, spent the last couple of hours browsing the various mobile phone offers and am simply...
[January 8, 2007, 1:52]
Mobile Phone Recommendations Please!
Forum I'm a freelance writer / copywriter, and it's important for me to be able to pick up my email on the move and generally stay in touch. Hi everyone, I'm new here, spent the last couple of hours browsing the various mobile phone offers and am simply...
[January 8, 2007, 1:54]
I Just Can't Let This Slide!
Talkback I'm not even sure the writer here even read the orgional story. Ok, I NEVER respond this these things but this was so absurd I had to wite. This entire article and the researcher's premise was total junk science.
[December 14, 2006, 18:11]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
Talkback I think this is an April Fools joke and the writer is either in on it or was taken for a ride. Hey all. I'm Tommy, AKA Silicon Valey. Other than the countdown pointing to the obvious approximation, here are a few sound reasons.
[March 12, 2004, 5:53]
Who Needs A Word Processor? review
Reviews If you want to get started with an online word processor right away, Zoho Writer is worth experimenting with. Unfortunately, I got error messages and was unsuccessful at posting to my Blogger account, and I found no easy way to post from Writely to...
[April 26, 2006, 11:00]
Sick Puppy Redo
Blog BTW—Has anyone else noticed that Microsoft or MicroSoft comes up as incorrect spelling in StarOffice 8 Writer? I generally follow a dispassionate investigative process when trying to discern what happened when a project goes bad.
[June 25, 2008, 5:05]
Microsoft Exec Talks Patent Politics
News As someone who is also a writer, I'm always quite intrigued by the idea that, if I write something, I shouldn't have some sort of rights over what I've produced, and that other people can go off and make money off the back of my creative work.
[May 25, 2007, 17:13]
Stephen King Puts The Plant On Ice
News I think a writer who had a track record and reputation and a fan base could reasonable try that," O'Brien said. I thought it got in the way of the relationship between the writer and audience -- it was too mercantile.
[November 29, 2000, 10:43]
Chris Long's Column: Viruses I've Known And Loved
News Like if you wanted to really be known as an ace hacker cum virus writer would you choose to only affect Microsoft Outlook and Exchange and make the virus send 50 emails? I'm feeling a bit left out here, I'm the only person -- it seems -- that hasn...
[April 8, 1999, 14:49]
Inside The Mind Of Asus' Marketing Department.
Blog Free writer", who are "Exquisite, Extreme slim and light". While this is a niche beyond my aspirations, I'm a bit bothered by the "Free writer" tag. Rock solid" pyramid diagram reveals somewhere over 20 models, peaking in the sort of spec that...
[July 31, 2008, 9:28]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Look, I remember Stewart when he was first Editor of Infoworld (in the days when I was a young freelance writer and worked for Infoworld myself. They bill Foster grandiosely as "the world's greatest living science fiction writer," which makes me...
[February 15, 1997, 7:00]
Laptop Buying Advice
Forum Plus a DVD writer. I visit this site as it has excellent reviews of a wide range of products, and seems to be for the more intelligent IT expert. So I wonder if I can ask any of you for some advice on a laptop I'd like to buy in the near future?
[July 15, 2006, 23:33]
Sober Worm Makes A Comeback
News It looks like the virus writer is deliberately using broken English to [convince] people the email is not a virus," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for antivirus firm Sophos. Virus writers have resurrected the Sober worm with a new...
[April 19, 2005, 17:20]
The Fox Guarding The Chicken Coop
News A twist of fate has led the former virus writer Czech student Marek Strihavka to take a job stopping digital pests like those he used to create. Antivirus companies frequently say that no virus writer should ever have a job in security.
[January 18, 2005, 9:50]
Management Tip: Dare To Look Foolish!
News A writer once said that what most young people want more than anything in the world is a good friend they can talk to -- about themselves. Too many times technical managers are reluctant to demonstrate their ignorance by admitting they don't know...
[November 12, 2002, 11:25]
Cube Fans Pray For Its Reincarnation
News Laurie Yadon, an aspiring writer in Portland, Oregon, said she wishes she could still buy one of the compact computers new from Apple. The 8-inch, cube-shaped machine, which remained in oversupply throughout its short life, has quickly disappeared...
[July 12, 2001, 12:15]
Whatever Happened To... Holographic Storage?
Blog And what an exciting story it was - fifty pence for the card, a hundred quid for the reader, five hundred for the writer (hmm, not so exciting after all). Amazing what you find when you're researching on the Web.
[May 8, 2007, 11:43]
Big Bill Is Watching Your Posts
News But conservatively you could estimate that there are 10 readers for every writer, so that makes it 130 million Usenet users per year. Ever get the feeling your Usenet email list is being watched? By Microsoft?
[August 19, 2003, 15:25]
