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Lego History

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

If I could embed this video I would. Recently the guys at Gizmodo took a tour of the LEGO factory. As you know we love LEGO so I was sucked in.
One of the things they were shown was the vault full of every LEGO set from the 1950’s to now. Wow! Some of this stuff [...]

Over Five and a Half Million Downloads for Firefox 3 so far

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

The call went out to geeks across the globe, download Firefox 3 to help set a world record. Great job guys!
It’s not over yet and there’s over five and a half million downloads according to the Map stats. Before Firefox 3 was even available, Mozilla’s servers were feeling the burn. There’s a bit of time [...]

Surgical Skill

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Given my profession as a theatre nurse this really got my interest. The da Vinci Surgical System is a set of computers and instrumentation. A technological advancement on the traditional Laparoscopic or “key-hole” surgery in that rather than the instruments being held by the surgeon they are held by a robot. The surgeon controls the [...]

Where to Get Your WWDC08 Coverage

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Those Apple fans and lurkers out there that could not make it to the World Wide Developers Conference; I thought you might be interested to know where you can get some live updates and information.
No doubt the conference will take twitter out of action. But it is OK apparently the folks at twitter have been [...]

FeedDemon now Working; What to do About Your Feeds Not Updating as they Should

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

I generally don’t give up totally on a problem and the issue with FeedDemon not updating as our feed does was one that had me beat. But as I said; not one to accept that I was still exploring the issue and decided to contact Nick Bradbury who got the feed working and told me [...]

Where is the Show?

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Okay, so the longer I am writing this the less time I get to work on the show. My time line this week has been awful, the worst. I noticed that John asked where the show was being Wednesday. Your right, it is usually out by now. But I have just not had a chance [...]

186 GigaFlops in a Chest of Drawers

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

I came across an article today speaking about a guy in Sweeden who put together a linux-based 3D rendering farm that he could run in his own house.  The remarkable part: he built a six-node cluster and used an Ikea Helmer drawer unit as the case… for all six nodes.

Image courtesy helmer.sfe.se
It’s an amazing piece [...]

Marketing 2.0: Michael Arrington on Start-ups

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

This video comes from Startup School 2008. Mike talks about marketing your startup. Now just throw out what you “think” of Mike for the moment, you can pick your opinions up after you watch the video.
While the video focuses on startup marketing and getting noticed, I think that there are some really good ideas and [...]

Got a few Spare Hard Drives?

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

So a guy accumulates 1,500 hard drives after spending 5 years modding Xboxes. So he figures out he can make a cool video and post it on YouTube.
Me I want to know how he toasted 1,500 hard drives just modding XBoxes!!

Harrison Ford on seesmic

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I am going to take a guess and say that Loic has had an great idea to demonstrate the effectiveness of new media and video for conversation and buzz generation using seesmic. Great idea, wait till you see it in action.
Case 1: The up and coming new Indiana Jones Movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom [...]