Monthly Archives: February 2007

Oblivion - Shivering Isles

February 9, 2007 – 12:24 am

For those people interested in all things Oblivion who visit the Menori blog the official annoucement was last month by Bethesda. See the posting here. Make sure you search for isles with an ’s’ in it. I noticed some people finding menori.com by searching for ’shivering iles’. That would because of this comment which was [...]

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Steve’s thoughts on music

February 7, 2007 – 1:10 pm

Steve Jobs has presented his views on the current state of DRM and music downloads. It seems that Apple is trying to garner public support for lobbying the big 4 music industry producers, Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal to drop there requirements for DRM altogther. Steve argues that only about 10% of music is sold [...]

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The law of online gaming

February 7, 2007 – 12:23 am

Smigg has written a neat article on the etiquette of online gaming. I couldn’t agree more. Having played Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest 2, a bit of Counter Strike and some games of Pro-Evo 6 with and against online opposition I’ve drawn my own, often jaded conclusions of online gameplay. I cast my mind back to [...]

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Joost latest

February 6, 2007 – 11:56 pm

This morning I got an email from the folks from Joost. The latest version 0.7.4 was available for download. So download I did.
We’ve incorporated a lot of your feedback - from better coping with certain
local configurations, firewalls and virus scanners, fixed crashes, added
locale support - all the way to user interface tweaks such as better [...]

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The wonder of the Web

February 6, 2007 – 12:26 am

As YouTube continues to provide me with literally minutes of entertainment it’s difficult to find really good content to make me laugh or stare in wonderment. MSN Video, of all things, had this little gem on it:
Algorithm March with the Kawasaki Frontales

Pythagoras Switches does the beloved Algorithm March with the Kawasaki Frontales (a Japanese football [...]

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Flybook VM: form and function

February 3, 2007 – 8:14 pm

Now I’m a fan of pretty laptops. The Flybook VM from manufacturer Holbe Dialogue is as stunning as a Ferrari 308 GTS.
If you’ve owned (and I still own) a Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium you know how iconic certain laptop designs can be. It wont be long before these machines appear on 24 in the [...]

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