Archive for the 'Teh Interweb' Category

Bill Gates concedes to Linux

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

… at least according to an official microsoft website.
As you can see, Microsoft is stupidly using a query string to pass an error message. In case they fix this problem (which they no doubt will) I have added a screenshot to the right.
Absolute web development lunacy.
Update: The page has already been fixed.

Bittorrent is the devil

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

So, the MPAA has seen fit to accuse the BitTorrent protocol of eating away at the launch-day earnings of Star Wars Episode III.
I am sure George Lucas is collecting all of his food stamps and lining up at the local welfare office following such a blatent robbery of his small-time earner. The movie only made [...]

Gmail now offering 2gig?

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

Sometime yesterday I noticed my Gmail account’s available storage was ever slowly going up! First 1500MB, then 1700MB, and this morning I wake up to see the following:

I wonder if that is where it will stop. One would assume so, but with Google you never know. (And the fact that it is 2051MB and not [...]

Google-bomb… without the bomb

Monday, March 28th, 2005

More like a Google-firecracker than a Google-bomb.
So it turns out that currently, 38.6% of all of my Google-searcher traffic is looking for the phrase “firefox settings”. Also, all of that traffic seems to be going directly to my short article about, wouldn’t you know it, Remote Firefox Settings. How could this be?
Well as it turns [...]