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No, I haven’t thrown out the PC and bought a new one, although I’ve been seriously tempted.  But I like a challenge.  So, back from Asia and, after months of whinging about Vista, I’ve finally solved the biggest issue I’ve had on my shiny, new $5,000 PC that looks like a Ferrari and runs like…

I rang my bank call centre today and, as usual, it was diverted to their Indian call centre.  Unusually, I then got this message: "We apologise for disruption to our service, but we cannot receive your call at the moment.  Please try again later". I wondered what had happened and, being in Asia, they knew…

Over the weekend, I received this strange letter in French.  Now my French is not very good, so I have done my best to translate it, but I apologise if it does not read very well.  Even though I am sure it is rubbish, I am reprinting it here, as you never know. Mon cher…

TED is a conference that takes place once a year in the USA and is like a Davos for business.  If you don’t know what TED is, then check it out here. The show is also where many of the future technologies are revealed, and videotaped, as can be seen on the websit.  TED also…

TED is a conference that takes place once a year in the USA and is like a Davos for business.  If you don’t know what TED is, then check it out here. The show is also where many of the future technologies are revealed, and videotaped, as can be seen on the websit.  TED also…

There are various forecasts of the future that may be right or wrong.  For example, this one’s a goodie.  Called EPIC 2014, and nicknamed Googlezon, it forecasts that by 2014 the current media and news organisations are dead and gone, and Google and Amazon merge.  It was made in 2005, around the same time as…

There are various forecasts of the future that may be right or wrong.  For example, this one’s a goodie.  Called EPIC 2014, and nicknamed Googlezon, it forecasts that by 2014 the current media and news organisations are dead and gone, and Google and Amazon merge.  It was made in 2005, around the same time as…

Read the announcement from Societe Generale here (six page pdf). The rogue trader lost €4.9 billion through a series of fictional transactions.  Societe Generale aren’t naming him, but apparently the trader dealt in plain vanilla European stock market index futures and concealed his losses through in-depth knowledge of the bank’s control systems, which he had…

Read the announcement from Societe Generale here (six page pdf). The rogue trader lost €4.9 billion through a series of fictional transactions.  Societe Generale aren’t naming him, but apparently the trader dealt in plain vanilla European stock market index futures and concealed his losses through in-depth knowledge of the bank’s control systems, which he had…

In this worldwide web of global wonders, I’m getting fairly cheesed off with the number of social networks I’m now getting involved with. From Facebook to LinkedIn to Plaxo to Bebo, they’re all starting to mindmeld into one.  Add in Habbo Hotel, Second Life, Entropia and all the other virtual worlds, and you almost lose…