Archive for July, 2007

Wow, I feel like there’s a piece of technology no-one told me about. Seems the best use for it though is for streaming media to an Xbox360. I’m talking about “Orb” (www.orb.com, Wikipedia entry). Essentially what it is is a piece of software on your PC able to index all your media files and transcode/stream […]

As if I wasn’t feeling bad enough after watching Die Hard 4(point oh) I now come across pics of this guy’s computer room where him and his girlfriend command an entire guild of WoW characters. And following that some other very very nice multi monitor setups. I think I really should start collecting all those […]

Ok for the record I am VERY anti-DRM. My opinion of Vista is that it’s the first big step in entrapping everyone.
That said I’ve been playing with it a bit lately because it came on a new laptop (13.3″ Vaio with T7200, 2GB ram, 160GB hdd, etc). Now that’s some pretty spiffy hardware it gets to run on and as expected on any new PC it’s running rather smoothly. In fact I’m quite impressed by how well Sony customised it etc and everything works. Not so […]

So I’ve just watched the new Die Hard movie which introduces itself as “Die Hard 4.0″. Funnily enough I never saw a single shiny table (10 points if you get that). Anyway, most of the movie was about haxxors haxxing the USA (’spose that counts as “the planet” for Americans). These movies pretty much always make me feel inadequate and un-hardcore.