February 2007 Archives

Hey, lookie. It's David Hasselhoff as your bathroom cleanser

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John Crow gives us his list of 10 blogging mistakes to avoid. I'd like to add one to that list though. Make sure your blog is visable and viewable in most if not all of the common browsers. Granted you're not going to be able to accommodate every browser out there (Mark made mention once that he has folks asking for older browser support over at wordpress.com) but I'm getting lines all throughout the comment section of John's post in Firefox.

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Computing took a leap forward when chipmakers started putting more than one core—or central brain—on a single chip. It was a way to make machines work harder even as they consumed less power. Just wait until a single chip can sport 80 cores.

The wait won't be long. Chipmaking giant Intel (INTC) on Feb. 11 said it has successfully produced just such a chip, the size of a fingernail, capable of processing a mind-boggling 1 trillion calculations a second. The chip, which Intel claims is the fastest ever made, could start being used commercially in "in five years, if not sooner," Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner says.

I wonder if it will still take Windows five minutes to boot fully though.

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IT'S A FRIGGING BLOG PEOPLE! JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING DOESN'T WORK 100% OF THE TIME OR YOU CAN'T GET THE FEATURE THAT YOU WANT BECAUSE IT WOULD PUT THE OTHER USERS AT RISK, DOESN'T MEAN IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD! IT JUST MEANS YOU HAVE A HARDER TASK IN FRONT OF YOU!

Bloody hell...

I found this while hitting random blogs within my dashboard. It's a fairly detailed review of the new TARDIS on the BBC's Doctor Who show that has been recently relaunched. Makes for interesting reading.

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Two computer programmers have been arrested in South Korea on suspicion of unleashing a torrent of spam on the country between September and December last year.

Police allege that the two men - a 20-year-old and 26-year-old - sent some 1.6 billion unsolicited emails aimed at obtaining financial information for resale to loan companies. Authorities said the pair flogged 12,000 South Korean's details, netting them around $106,400.

But yet they won't do anything about the spam flowing out of their country to other countries.

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So, just to recap, T-Mobile hired Quantum Media who hired Mailtrack Media who hired E-Mail Movers who bought a list from Century Communications who bought it from a bloke on eBay.

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Distributive Networks Inc., a Washington, D.C., marketing company that sells Astromobo horoscopes, Daily Pop Gossip, Mad Love Tips and Rinstar Mobile services for cell phones, is settling with the plaintiffs for somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 over allegations of text message spamming.

All I can say is that it was interesting.

Discovered from here.

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Here is a video showing what the controls for a ‘Star Wars’ game on the Wii would be like. If you watch the video, you get a pretty good sense of what could work. Keep in mind that the video didn’t show button presses, so take those into consideration as well, and this could be an awesome game.