Archive for January, 2007

sony to cut ps3 to boost sales

January 31, 2007

In a bid to stay away from the huge Vista marketing machine that seems to be coping (more than) well enough by itself, I’ve focused on a more interesting story. It seems that due to recent bad sales of the PS3, Sony’s Senior Vice President has said that they may need to cut the price [...]

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wtf? Giant Turtle!

January 30, 2007

A work colleague of mine pointed out that he had seen a really big picture of a giant turtle. So we did a search and I turned up this monster! Not sure if it’s valid though.. [SHOW ME]

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crazy vending machines

January 21, 2007

OK, maybe because I’m moving, or maybe because it’s Sunday. But the main reason for this post has purely got to be laziness. Yes, I have provided a link to somebody else’s news about some really weird vending machines that I read about recently on Digg. Check out the stranger side of what people are [...]

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Backup tapes over 1.6TB

January 11, 2007

With standard sized tapes, the capacity of the LTO Ultrium has been increased by two to provide 800GB storage uncompressed, and 1.6TB assuming 2:1 compression. Also the transfer rate has been increased to a massive 120MB/s. This new standard is labelled LTO Ultrium 4. Read The Register article below for more info. [SHOW ME]

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apple iphone

January 10, 2007

Apple’s latest innovation has been unveiled at the [Macworld expo] today. And what sort of blogger would I be without covering it? The new device, available only with the US carrier singular initially has some nice features. Some of which include a proximity sensor that detects your head when you put the iphone to your [...]

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worst web design ever…

January 4, 2007

I know it sounds like a new compilation album “not available in the shops.” This collection of bad web design is useful if you’re thinking of doing a website and think animated gifs are “cool.” It’s also really useful if your website isn’t top-notch and you want to feel a bit better about your design [...]

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face research

January 3, 2007

I can’t comment on the validity of the research, as I obviously don’t know anything about the science, but the results produced from this website are pretty fun – created by two experimental psychologists who are currently studying at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. The particular section of the website I’m linking to is [...]

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