Wednesday 19 March 2003

Win some, lose some, then there's that pesky third category. You know how the Macintosh is a superior product but that Windows is the market leader? Go on admit it. You know the Mac is superior. And you know how Al Gore got 500,000 more votes nationally than George W. Bush but Bush became president anyway. Well Al Gore just became a board member of Apple. There's a message there somewhere. 11:58:16 PM    comment []  Google It!

Say cheese and onion A lot of pubs in Dublin frown on camera phones. However, this pub in London takes the quite the opposite approach. Pub offers snaps and shots. A North London bar is turning to wireless technology to give patrons something to do while they drink. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 5:31:56 PM    comment []  Google It!

Bye bye iMac Karlin Lillington notes the passing of the original iMac. As the owner of a Tangerine iMac I'm sad to see the original form factor finally go. Well it's not completely gone. Education users will still be able to buy it. Apple pulls plug on original iMac. Five years after debuting the original iMac, Apple Computer stops selling the gumdrop-shaped machine to the public. RiP. [CNET News.com] ...The company also is beginning to offer servers designed for clustering. [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] 12:20:37 PM    comment []  Google It!

SETI at home may bear fruit It's good to know that all those screensavers have done some good. ET hunters take closer look. After four years sifting data on millions of home PCs, astronomers now have a shortlist of "promising" places in space to look for aliens. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 12:09:52 PM    comment []  Google It!

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