A quick bit of (near) end of week humour. This pretty much rang true for me, being in IT and having to deal with certain people like this on a daily basis. It compares how ridiculous some IT questions would appear to a car vendor.. [SHOW ME]

Reported by techdirt, it appears that there’s another nail in the coffin for the AACS copy protection for the next generation formats HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. It is reported that another one of the secret keys that are used by the player hardware to decrypt the protected content on the DVDs has been discovered with a [...]

Reported in the register yesterday, Hitachi have developed the world’s smallest RFID chip on the market. These chips, pictured right, are smaller than the thickness of a human hair at 0.04mm x 0.04mm and with a working name of “Powder”. Maybe now we can have a fridge that can sense it’s contents and perhaps even [...]

Yeap I’m back, and imagine my surprise when one of the first stories I looked at concerned a security fix for Windows Defender, which is now integral with Vista. This is really the second vulnerability that’s been discovered in recent months. The funniest and most overlooked flaw was with the built-in speech recognition system in [...]

Just a short post to say that today I am moving. And although I don’t usually write personal posts, I thought I’d drop this one in as I’m probably not going to be blogging for a week or so with everything up in the air. So please, don’t go away and hopefully I’ll be back [...]

So I found this article on Rolling Stone. So I thought, “what the hell, maybe I’ll read it.” Next thing I know I’m staring at a “Apple think they’re heading to be Microsoft” article AGAIN! So I analyse the article (AGAIN) and decide on these points… Apple has always wanted to be Microsoft so have [...]

This great article was found via [digg] and details some really useful tips and tricks for keeping Windows XP running where it should be. It’s divided into beginners, intermediate and expert (for the truly brave amongst you). The performance gains for each one is not that great, however, after combining a few tips even the [...]

Yeap, OK, It’s not a tech article, but I’m working on it OK? After browsing a bit, I stumbled upon one of my favourite websites of yester-year. Last time I visited was probably a good 2 years ago, but my god has the entertainment value increased since then!! As you can see, from the picture [...]