Once the trend towards “blogging” took hold, the numbers just grew and after a while in most of the connected countries in the world, about one percent of the population, was blogging (and in France it was three percent, although I'm not...

Here they are: You are an intelligent person and no intelligent person ever falls for a headline that starts with “Five Reasons...” However, if you clicked your way here by accident or you're just a little absent minded today and have...

AntiVirus Ironically Damaged is this week's alternative meaning for the AVID acronym. I am thinking here of the howls of protest from Symantec and McAfee because of security features that Microsoft has put into Vista. McAfee put a full page ad into...

There are now six people I know, including the local vicar, who have switched to Apple in the year or so following my personal technology switch. (To be honest the vicar converted, the rest just switched). None of these switches were iPod...

The New York Times headline was that announced the acquisition was GooTube, which made me laugh. The rumour of a Google swoop for YouTube emerged on Friday and by the end of Monday it was a done deal. Google was not the first “giant with a...

I know this has nothing to do with IT, but what the hell. Wired.com ran an article which set me thinking. The simple facts are these: A company called Aqua Sciences has built a “water harvester” which pulls water out of the air....

Today's AVID theme is; AntiVirus Is Disruptive. What am I talking about? Well, as regular readers already know, because I keep unearthing and publishing evidence that demonstrates it, AV technology doesn't block malware effectively. It is horribly...

I had hoped that Sun Micrososytems wasn't going to fade away after its dot-com-decline. The decline finally did for Scott McNeally earlier this year and placed Jonathan Schwartz on his erstwhile throne. Jon's doing well. Actually I have to confess...

Do you remember “Comical Ali”, also known as Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Minister of Information for the brief duration of the second Gulf War. He was famous for bombastic quotes such as “Our initial assessment is that they...

I kid you not. In late August someone posted the following to my Blog: Dear Robin, sir i want some detailed notes on the ibm's emotion mouse.i mean what is it?,how it works?,some pics..if u have it can u plz forward it to me. Arun I have not...

Gary Kasparov became the World Chess Champion in 1985, following his second match against reigning champion Anatoly Karpov. The first match (started in 1984) had been abandoned inconclusively, under unusual circumstances. The rules for the first...