Lucian writes about the problem he’s experienced with Dell. We’re having similar problems with our new Dell laptops. First, we discovered that the Bluetooth cards we had opted for, were not installed in our laptops. We notified them about this. Then, after 2 days of usage, my hard drive started making loud noises and I …
Month: November 2006
Avid followers of Second Life news would have heard of Crayon, the first new media marketing agency to be established in this virtual world. Well, since I couldn’t break into IBM land (see previous post), I decided to try my luck with an agency that welcomed visitors. Here’s a shot of Crayon from the outside. …
Ivan noted a Business Times report (IBM accelerates push into 3D virtual worlds, 13 Nov 2006) on how IBM is making use of Second Life to conduct business meetings. IBM’s CEO is making a visit to this virtual world today, in fact. Of course this was already reported a couple weeks earlier on Reuters’ Secondlife …
My G5 PowerMac, boasting a 160GB hard disk, has only 20GB of space left after nearly 2.5 years of usage. It’s been going strong, but the fan can get noisy and I sometimes wonder what would happen if something blew. Today at work, I discovered I only had a couple hundred MB of space left …
After a hectic start, Arsenal started showing their mettle. It was not very nice to see Thierry Henry getting knocked about – how often does that happen?! – but that could have fired the team and fans up. There were red herrings aplenty in this game: Robin Van Persie’s handball (or was it more like …
Because we can. Because you deserve it. Because I’m getting older, and you are, too. Because I squint when I read my own blog on other people’s screens. Because I want to play my own small part in bringing the national myopia rate down. (Hmm, right) (Thank you, CSS)
Just got back home after watching a play at Mox that raises awareness of protecting oneself AIDS by avoiding high-risk behaviour (for gays). The storyline is about a gay man who has a one-night stand with another guy he meets at the bar. They don’t use a condom and as a result, the man gets …
I didn’t know there was a South Park cartoon featuring World of Warcraft machinima, which became Cartoon Network’s most-watched show since 2000. You can watch the episode here, in three parts. Spoilers are in this Wikipedia entry. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Technorati Tags: World of Warcraft, machinima, South Park, Youtube
I was happy to hear about the shift in the powerbase in the ol’ US of A recently. Logged into Second Life just now and was informed that there was a virtual discussion group on the topic. Since they asked for publicity, here it is: Self-description: RootsCamps are 2006 post-election debriefs. The progressive community — …
By now you would’ve heard that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death. Various countries have expressed their agreement, disagreement, ambivalence and reservations about the decision. More here: Authoritative blogs’ posts on Saddam (Technorati) Wikipedia entry on Saddam Videos on Saddam (Youtube) Technorati Tags: Saddam, Iraq