So I already hated the “new and improved” Digg…prior to the PR disaster of Digg version 4.0, the site was already becoming more and more of a corporate shill, with embedded ads, sponsored “news” articles, links to “Special unrated content” from movie trailers, and other forms of digital herpes. Then the superhappyfun release of version [...]
Happy 20th Hubble!
April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Wow it’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the back of the space shuttle STS-31. I remember at first all the jokes about its technical problems, it had poor eyesight, and needed many repairs. HST was not going to give up the fight [...]
Get off of my cloud
January 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been listening to all this talk of “The Cloud”, which to me is the new Web 2.0, which replaced the dot-com boom, which used to be the new black. And I think it’s interesting, while also being a load of crap. Users are encouraged to think they can rely on the [...]