Archive for January, 2007

Towards truly pervasive computing

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

With iPhone stories pretty much drowning out all other news on the Internet, it seemed worthwhile to watch the keynote and see this marvel firsthand. Based on that presentation, it’s impossible to know how well the iPhone will perform as a telephone (I noticed that Steve Jobs “fat-fingered” the keyboard on several occasions during the […]

YouTube 2006 Highlights

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

2006 was apparently the year of online video. Not content with just blogging written words, or still images, great masses of Internet users everywhere uploaded themselves in full-motion, with sound, to sites like YouTube and Google video. For those of us who didn’t have time to browse through the thousands of posts on YouTube to […]

My website went AWOL!

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Unfortunately the server on which this website runs experienced a fatal hardware problem on Christmas Day, and the admins were unable to resuscitate it until today. 🙁 Happy New Year!

Sharing a Mac Printer with a Windows PC

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

I felt I had to blog about this because I’ve tried to do this twice in the last 12 months and each time the Internet has given me some wrong information that has led me to spend a frustrating hour puzzling as to why it didn’t work. To allow a Windows computer to print over […]