Jim Prince on July 29th, 2004

Interesting article on the development of Nano technology. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3920685.stm As predicted on Red Dwarf last night ;-)

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Jim Prince on July 27th, 2004

HP have officially anounced a bunch of new iPAQs. The hx4705 looks particularly tasty I’m sure you’ll agree. See engadget.com for more details.

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Jim Prince on July 24th, 2004

Lookout is a document and e-mail search tool that integrates with MS Outlook 2000 or above. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now and I’m impressed. My Mailbox contains more than 40,000 items and Lookout will still return search results in a fraction of a second. It’s recently been announced that Microsoft [...]

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Jim Prince on July 23rd, 2004

Every now and again someone comes up with a really good idea for a Web site, ebay and Friends Reunited are great examples of this. While not quite in there league bugmenot.com is extremely useful, especially if you’re concerned about on-line privacy. Basically it allows you to bypass the login of web sites that require [...]

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Jim Prince on July 23rd, 2004

We’re consolidating Servers in our data centre so I’ve spent some time looking at this and I have to say I’m disappointed. Having seen offerings from SUN and Dell I don’t believe either offers any significant advantages over 1U servers (at least not for Talis). One of the things that surprised me most was the [...]

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Jim Prince on July 22nd, 2004

We found this Bees nest in the eaves of my girlfriends house. It looks amazing. We had to take a photo of it.

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Jim Prince on July 22nd, 2004

Yes I know it’s American but this really made me laugh. You’ll need a sound card or it’s a bit pointless. http://www.jibjab.com

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Jim Prince on July 22nd, 2004

Acording to The Register one in 100 IE users have switched to another browser. This is good news and will hopefully lead to Microsoft taking security more seriously. Talis’ web stats reflect no change though. More than 90% of hits are from IE6 browsers. We’ll see what happens next month and before anyone says anything [...]

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Jim Prince on July 22nd, 2004

The Ford GT on Top Gear on Sunday really was something special but 4mpg, that’s just ridiculous. Wouldn’t mind one though. Anyone got £100k lying around? If your interested the new GT has a 5.4 litre supercharged truck engine which develops 500bhp. It has a top speed of 200mph.

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