Archive for June, 2007

Jun 29 2007

Interesting take on the iPhone on Slate

Published byKarlin under Apple

Over on Slate, Tim Wu makes some good points on why the iPhone isn’t as revolutionary as it could be. If Apple wanted to be “revolutionary,” it would sell an unlocked version of the iPhone that, like a computer, you could bring to the carrier of your choice. An even more radical device would be [...]

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Jun 27 2007

What’s that in there, anyway?

Published byKarlin under general weirdness

Joe is featuring the Fridge of Shame. OMG that is scary. I went over to Joe’s blog because I know a whole slew of Irish entrepreneurial types are going to Silicon Valley in December. They even have a wiki to plan it, where I promised to get back to them with some hotel ideas. But [...]

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Jun 26 2007

Attack of the Slurpbots

Published byKarlin under rants

I seem to have become the latest disaffected discussion board admin to be suffering at the hands of Yahoo. For the two years-plus that I have run a board, I have had a variety of search engine bots/spiders come crawl the site to index it for the relevant engine. That is, of course, not just [...]

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Jun 25 2007

Ich bin nicht deutsch!

Published byKarlin under general weirdness,internet

Well Google gets weirder and weirder. I am sitting on my sofa in Stoneybatter using my Eircom broadband connection and Google, bloody Google, thinks I am in Germany. I am trying to google something, and it switches me to the German Google site. WHAT?! In disbelief I retry, I even type in google.com on the [...]

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Jun 25 2007

Gotta love loaches

Published byKarlin under ramblings

I fell in love wth aquariums when I was very small. I had all sorts of small animal pets as a kid (snakes, toads, tadpoles, newts, salamanders, frogs, rabbits, lizards, cats, budgies, mice, rats, plus a very large dog), but I especially liked aquariums, and got my first little 10 gallon tank at about age [...]

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Jun 21 2007

Best 5 second video

Dramatic chipmunk.

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Jun 21 2007

Blooks, blogs, wikis: let’s call the whole thing off

Those are some of the most annoying cyberspace terms according to a survey. Numero uno is folksonomy. I must not get out much — or rather, maybe I get out too much and don’t spend enough time online — because I’ve never even heard of that word. I’ve always hated blog and blogosphere — blog [...]

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Jun 20 2007

Back with lots to think about!

Published byKarlin under technoculture

I arrived back in Ireland yesterday after 4 days each in Las Vegas and Silicon Valley, the latter spent with family. Las Vegas was fun but incredibly busy — I never even had a chance to go get in one of the pools much less see an (ourageously expensive) show. Though as Phantom is at [...]

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Jun 14 2007

Storage United in Sin City

Published byKarlin under events,tech

I am out in Las Vegas at Symantec’s annual conference where they did on of the best keynote promos for a new software release that I’ve ever seen. Their new storage management and security product is called Storage United and they have done football (soccer) shirts that mimic premiership shirts with Storage United across the [...]

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Jun 12 2007

Home internet usage dips slightly

Published byKarlin under internet

Latest stats from Nielsen/Netratings. Active Internet users are derived from the number of users who have logged on in the previous 30 days. Interesting that active users have fallen somewhat; the UK remains slightly up and Spain has a good growth. Tried to do a table which didn’t work so will paste from the release: [...]

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Jun 10 2007

A novel for the summer

Published byKarlin under arts

I was delighted to see that Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won this year’s range Prize for her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun. This is a wonderfully gifted woman whose first novel, Purple Hibiscus, I picked up at an Irish Times book sale last year and found to be a very moving and [...]

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Jun 08 2007

Google algorithm shift?

Published byKarlin under blogging

Looks like Google has implemented some sort of algorithm change as weblogs do not seem to be dominating results as they have done ever since blogs proliferated and were constructed in just the right way to climb up the results ladder. At least this is the case for me. I used to be able to [...]

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