This afternoon, I was in a Skype discussion with an old friend in the UK and part of our conversation strayed into a discussion about Web 2.0. My friend thinks it’s just meaningless marketing hype and similar to all the talk that we heard in the late 90s dot-com era (or Web 1.0, as I […]
Category: Computing
Organizing for the New Year
Housekeeping’s on my mind today. After enjoying Christmas in the UK with family, and being almost wholly switched off from the blogosphere for the best part of a week, I’m finding it quite refreshing to sit in front of my desktop PC today and think not about blogging but about hardware, software and sorting out […]
The rigmarole of Norton Internet Security
Notwithstanding the Dell Hell saga of last year, I love my Dell Dimension XPS Gen 5 which I bought in August. From a hardware point of view, it works perfectly. No issues whatsoever, so I’m a more than satisfied Dell customer. I wish I could say the same about some of the software running on […]
Moving towards Google’s EPIC
Still thinking that the Google Grid and the Evolving Personalized Information Construct are pure fantasy, just a history lesson from 2015? From The Times yesterday: Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who […]