Archive for February, 2009
What if: Google was offline for 72 hours
Feb 5th
Last week we saw two major errors on the internet that caused some minor disruption for many people. In both cases the problem occurred within Google, and in both cases the problem caused minor disruption and interference to users. Now, while these two events were minor and easily resolved, it does put us in an…
Google releases Google Latitude
Feb 5th
Those of you that communicate with me often know that I use a service called Fring to communicate when I’m out and about on my cellphone. Aside from the voice and IM chat features of Fring, which are pretty damn good, they also support location aware features that allow me to publish my current location…
Bum ticker about to give out
Feb 4th
Well now, a lot has happened in recent times. My health has been destroyed. Over the Auckland Anniversary weekend (24th – 26th of January) I could barely move without feeling as if I had run a marathon. In fact, just getting from one end of the house to the other was a very difficult mission…