Pluto has officially been booted out of the Solar System after a Czech conference determined the ex-planet falls outside of the official specifications. The 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has declared finally after a long week that Pluto, after it’s 1930 discovery, has been deemed to be not a “planet” after [...]

Wow that was a big gap between posts! Sorry about that.. No really I am.. The thing is I’ve had a week off work and things have lapsed a bit while I’ve been trying to relax and >shock< tried to ignore the PC for a bit..! Anyway, that is the main reason for the delay. [...]

What a great idea. Kind of obvious when you think about it.. If you want to register for anything online but want to avoid the deluge of spam that will appear after you disclose your email address, this is the site for you. You can create a temporary email address that will be deleted after [...]

According to press releases Dell has issued an immediate recall of 4.1 million batteries already installed in laptops, or supplied due to service calls. After a lot of press recently, Dell have formerly announced that they are recalling batteries that have been shown to be faulty. The laptop models affected are available if you follow [...]

I don’t know how much of a geek you are, but if you’re bonefide like me, you’ll need this list. This list is a decent representation of some of the things you can do in Windows that you may not realise. Such as the ability to create your own fonts, contig and defrag for Hard [...]

I wound up here the other day for no reason, but to try and see if the BBC had a stats page for their website. I was suprised to find it relatively quickly. However I was presented with a password. So I tried the first thing I thought of and it worked: Username: stats, password: [...]

If you live in the UK you can now find out if your neighbours are up to the same “technological speed” as you are. Yes that’s right, after new research (ESRC funded e-Societyproject), you can look up your technology rating according to your post-code in the UK. The rating ranges from E-unengaged to E-expert with [...]

OK, I stumbled upon this the other day (not to be confused with [stumbleupon.com]) and decided to download to give it a trial. Anything that’s free and will help you avoid those god-damn phising assholes deserves my attention (and hopefully yours!) I’ve just given it a quick trial, and I’m pretty sure that’s all that’s [...]

Just a quick post, before my main post of the day to say “Happy Belated Birthday” to the Web. I missed it by a day, damn! I think people generally believe it to be 15 years old on the 6th August because that was apparently when a paper was submitted to newsgroups for the use [...]

Yeap, a quick post to let you know (if you care) that the ants are dead, therefore the antblog is dead. Oh well. It seems they only last a month or so before they “pop their clogs” to coin a phrase! Oh well, on with the tech news then…