I wonder what silence sounds like?
Thats the latest tweet from Mark, author of The Tinnitus Book. I have a mild ringing in my ears all the time – so I can totally sympathise with the real sufferers! Mark tells me he wrote the book himself – the result of being afflicted with tinnitus and making the best of a bad [...]
The Generation Gap that swallows you whole!
An SOS went out today from a young BMX racer via Facebook that his website had been hacked. I took a look at http://marcwillers.com/ and the first thing that struck me was that it wasn’t a typical hacking… closer inspection of the Facebook messages showed that there was some sort of conflict between Marc and [...]
Office 2010. Free to a PC near you!
This has got to be the best news to pass by me today, saw this headline – fully expected the link to be warez or something nasty but no… a genuine, bona fide Microsoft link. Can’t get any better than that. http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx The download doesn’t work from Firefox (boo, but are we surprised?) so boot [...]
Place Big Brother at the Pumps and track down Hit and Run Drivers!
While the Police scour the Helensville district for the killer white ute that seems to have targetted Dr Robinson and run him off the road with fatal consequences it seems time that the community embraced some of the “Big Brother” measures that could make our communities safer without creating civil liberty type problems. One of [...]
But you're not my friend!
With great amusement I noted that Digitalpoint have upgraded their forum and turned on the social networking side of vBulletin and I had a swag of “friend requests” waiting for me. It reminded me of an incident this week when I recieved a Facebook friend request from someone who was instrumental in an accusation of [...]
Tech Support, Remote Access and Adsense Fraud
Here’s a new little twist to the old Click Fraud drama that the Adsense team spend their days combatting. Nishant introduces himself over at DigitalPoint as a manager for HP Technical Support. He later tells me privately that he’s cooked up a scheme where he and his team will click my Adsense Ads during remote [...]
Getting the best pregnancy tips
My days of being hugely interested in pregnancy are long over – nowadays you’ll find me offering congratulations, remembering warmly but being grateful that those days are over. So, it was interesting to review “Best Pregnancy Tips“. The site is amazingly well stocked with a variety of articles, appropriate images and it passes the copyscape [...]
Amit's Tech Blog
It’s always interesting for one tech blogger to check out another… in this case Amit’s Tech Blog. There’s the whole definition of tech to consider: how strictly does the blog stick to the subject matter? Just what type of tech articles are covered. One of Amit’s most recent posts relates to the Indian elections – [...]
