Archive for the 'Technology' Category

A2 Hypersonic passenger jet

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Images: created by Adrian Mann : Courtesy: http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/

A British firm based in Oxford has released plans for a hypersonic passenger airplane that they claim will be able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5. The craft, called the A2, will have a range of 20,000 km (12427.42 miles). Reaction Engines told the press [...]

Microsoft - Antitrust

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I don’t know why Microsoft hasn’t just renamed itself “Antitrust” because that word is never more than a dash away from its official name. This time Microsoft (backed into a corner for once) is dead set on buying Yahoo. If Microsoft bought Yahoo, then this is a bad thing which puts it in a dominant [...]

100 things people are saying about Vista

Monday, February 4th, 2008

First everyone was rendered speechless by how shit Vista is, and now they’ve recovered their voices are are shouting from the rooftops that Vista is a pig in a poke.
100 things people are saying about Vista

My experience with Linux

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Last year, literally on the 1st of January I binned Windows and switched to Linux. After 11 years of using Windows on my PCs I decided enough was enough! What could spark this drastic change in ideology you might wonder? Well as the three or so of you who read my blog should know - [...]

ISPs to become content police

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

ISPs are set on a course to become content police, warns Internet law professor Michael Geist. He told the BBC News website: “In recent months, a new strategy has begun to emerge. With the industry gradually admitting that locking down content does not work, it has now dangerously shifted toward locking down the Internet. The [...]

Virgin unveils Space Ship Two

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Virgin have unveiled the new Space Ship Two, and isn’t it gorgeous! Nice design. Burt Rutan’s influence can clearly be seen, I’ve always liked the way he designed his planes, having little or no regard for convention - brilliant stuff.
“2008 really will be the Year of the Spaceship.” — Richard Branson.
At the NYC Unveiling Event [...]