Article archive - page 8

Is £180 good value for Wii Sports?
Tuesday, July 3rd 2007
I am definitely a Nintendo fan boy. I've had every Nintendo console released on the market plus so many Game & Watches it's not funny. Call me sentimental but Nintendo has been a part of and is one of the definers of my…
DRMed for Life
Thursday, May 3rd 2007
In the news recently has been the whole thing about not only the copy protection on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks being cracked but people posting digg links with decryption keys in them. I can understand Digg's position in…
Super computer required to simulate half a mouse brain
Monday, April 30th 2007
Scientists have published that the've used the IBM Blue Gene L supercomputer to simulate half of a typical mouse's brain. More accurately they've simulated about half the neurons and just over half the number of synaptic…
When CSS goes bad
Sunday, April 29th 2007
If you do a lot of CSS work you'll have seen particular bugs time after time and how to deal with them, however when things do go wrong [and they will trust me] finding bug related information can be a nightmare. For…
The things we take for granted
Tuesday, April 24th 2007
I had one of those amazing moments as a techie last night where you get so gobsmacked by something that you think about it even a day or so later. I was doing something on a mate's computer. Fair enough he isn't the most…
Why is CSS such a painful tool?
Monday, April 23rd 2007
Looking at the title above you'd be expecting to see a rant covering the lines of CSS is rubbish, it doesn't work properly and why can't we go back to the days of nested tables and lots of little shim images. I love CSS…
Fuzzy's where it's at... or will be eventually
Monday, March 5th 2007
Using fuzzy logic can create significantly better customer experience. However it hasn't caught on on web circles yet but examples are starting.
Please nokia slap me again - no really
Thursday, February 15th 2007
I love Nokia phones. In fact you could probably say that I have had a love affair with Nokia devices for over the last 10 years ever since my first one. Typically they sum up everything that is important to me about…