We wish to thank you for shelling out your 100 quid on your fancy little Apple TV gadget which, by the way, cost you about $60 (a massive 40%) more in the UK than your US friends are paying, and for giving us six quid a month for the pleasure of staring at this… The entire family [...]
Google COULD Clean Up If They Wanted To
April 14, 2012
When ‘Panda’ was rolled out, word on the streets as that Google were ‘dropping’ spammy ‘networks’ (the link farm variety) – according to their blog (in February 2012 2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html) which states “we often re-architect or turn off parts of our scoring [the mystery algorithms] in order to keep our system maintainable, clean and understandable” whatever [...]
Formula 1 in Bahrain, Right or Wrong?
April 13, 2012
News channels overnight (and the buzz around social networking channels like Twitter and Facebook) have reported The Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead on 22 April as planned, as announced by the motor sport’s governing body, the FIA. The statement from FIA confirmed its ‘satisfaction’ that “all proper security measures are in place for the running of a [...]
The Pay Per Click PPC Scam
April 10, 2012
It has been known for a very long time that if you can make your Pay Per Click (PPC) adverts look like part of your website then more people will click on them and you will make more money. And, as we know, if there’s a way for making more money without lifting a finger, [...]
Google Glasses – Supplied With Aspirin?
April 9, 2012
Remember the first views of a Virtual Reality cocoon like gadget that isolated a user in their own little sci-fi world? Remember the first time you saw some cool dude with a bluetooth headset that he couldn’t resist constantly touching to make sure we all saw it? Remember what your thoughts were when Nintendo announced [...]
Did Anonymous Hack into Home Office?
April 8, 2012
No. But the fear factor generated by headlines like “Home Office Website Hacked By Anonymous” will make millions panic and become (for a while) more conscious of Internet related risks and, amidst the panic, make it easy for scare mongers to boost sales of security services & software. The Home Office acknowledged it had been [...]
Shame About Da Language Dude, Init?
April 7, 2012
I know I get rattled easily and, so I’m told, about some trivial, unimportant things. But, come on, isn’t our language important? Well, if our t’interweb is anything to go by, clearly not. But is it that our language is unimportant or is it that we have become so damn lazy we can’t even be [...]
