You may remember, if you’re one of my more hard-core readers, back in the old blog, I used to make a few posts about the past present and future of the iPlayer. Well it turns out that it’s still growing rapidly into one of the main parts of the BBC. While competitors made an effort to launch their online services, like ITV’s Catch-up service (which nobody uses, due to the strict requirements) or the boom of 4’s 4od (now a part of Virgin Media or online), the BBC is still …
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I have been searching around on the internet, having a look for some evidence to indicate why I should bother maintaining a nofollow structure on any software I write. It was originally a concept by Google, back in the Pagerank beta, to combat the abuse of link-based spam, but many predicted its failure. Has it really done anything? Well the numbers say no.
The first point that I would like to make is that the actual numbers of link spam has increased 100 fold. You can see that by looking at …
The new version of Firefox (3) has begun to spread around the industry, with some disappointing results. Although there are a few new features, noticeably Gecko 1.9, and the URL bar’s striking new functionality, there is just not enough changes to give it an integer update, to 3. If I was in charge, I would call it 2.2 (or even 2.1) or something to suggest a medium magnitude feature change. The only reason for it is the new Gecko implementation, for the simplicity for the end user.
I have been using …
I’ve just got back from an incredibly long session of the new version of Minesweeper. That was a cruel and patronising game. When it said ‘deceptively simple’ in the description, I had no idea how (concerning) long it would take to complete it. Damn. Microsoft beat me again.
This is quite a convenient example of how Microsoft has managed to give the whole OS a complete overhaul. Still got a bit more to prove to me, but the gap between OS X and Windows is closing rapidly, especially with the …