Archive for May, 2006
MasterCard, Vonage and Net Neutrality
May 26th
Wow. Wish I’d been able to get in on this one. 15% in one day… Damn! MasterCard [(NYSE:MA)] debuted powerfully on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday – its shares soaring by more than 15 per cent – after the world’s second largest credit card issuer raised $2.4bn in an initial public offering. It…
AOL’s AIM Triton 1.5 Preview Edition released
May 26th
Hmmm… About 7:30am today I get an email from AOL. At first I thought it was a spam message given I don’t know anyone that still uses their AOL email account anymore… Problem was, my curiousity was getting the best of me and I actually read it. Damn gmail previews ;-) Turns out AOL decided…
New blog coming soon
May 26th
Lately I’ve been getting asked lots of questions about simple howto things people might want to do in Linux or Gnome. I’m pretty proficient in those subjects apparently, I seem to be able to answer most questions, so I’ve decided that I’m going to start a new blog soon that will cover off the questions…
Google says I’m not a spammer! YAY!
May 25th
I did gets me an email today that I am finally very glad about. Google has decided that after careful consideration, I’m not a spammer after all and I can have all the features of Blogger back available to me again. :-) Hello, Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so…
Google users promised artificial intelligence
May 25th
Found this on Digg and thought it was initially a joke, but even Google mention it on their website. :-/ Speaking at a conference for Google’s European partners, entitled Zeitgeist ’06, on the outskirts of London last night Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and co-founder Larry Page gave an insight into perhaps the most ambitious…
Wheres the DGP gone?
May 24th
Am wondering what Dr Salus is doing now days. Its been months since he last published a chapter of The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin. Am starting to think I might as well take it off the front page of SKC Services because it really is just feeling like a waste of time and…
Google does Video Advertising
May 24th
OMG! I have so many posts sitting in Draft form at the moment that I never really intended to publish, but then this news shows up and now I really regret not publishing one of them. In it I predicted exactly what is happening here. Google Inc. will begin distributing online video ads for the…
Why I choose Zillion over TradeMe
May 22nd
Not that most of you probably even notice it given you should all be using Firefox with the AdBlock and Adblock Filterset.G Updater extensions installed and running nicely (you are aren’t you?) but I have started putting up ads for Zillion lately. For those that don’t know, Zillion is a competitor to TradeMe, but they’re…
Its not the food, its the lifestyle.
May 22nd
FINALLY! Food has only been a very minor and insignificant part of the problem. Its about time someone started to stand up and say so. Obesity is caused mainly by lack of exercise and banning junk food advertising is not the answer to the problem, food manufacturers have told a parliamentary inquiry. In a presentation…
Google tech talk video about Second Life
May 22nd
Travelling around watching videos as I do, I stumbled across this one and was seriously impressed. I’ve been watching a lot of the Google Tech Talk videos lately. Mostly because it reminds me of when I used to wander down to Microsoft in the mornings to have pretty much the same kinds of talks there…