I’m currently working my an Open University course. Recently after submitting an assignment I was disappointed to see I’d lost some marks due to formatting. The online systems that the Open University have mean that only Microsoft Word .doc or .rtf files are accepted for this type of upload even though the systems in place
On the 3rd December 2010 American DNS provider EveryDNS decided to drop Wikileaks.org from their systems, leaving any new visitors to the main site, wikileaks.org left in the dark. Now on the 7th December 2010 it still seems that the wikileaks.org domain is pointing to EveryDNS’ servers despite lookups to that domain being dropped by
I’ve been a bit of an open source fanboy for quite a few years now, the benefits of free and community supported software have always been very clear to me along with knowing I’m using something that’s open and not hiding anything nasty inside it. Today I opened Ubuntu 10.10′s Ubuntu Software Centre and thought
Over this last 12 months I’ve mentioned several times how I feel about the Google Adsense program which is providing both individuals an families with an income to live on. I’ve also mentioned how this income can come and go overnight and only exists if you can accept Google as God, do as they say without
A few hours ago Google announced that negotiations with China regarding censorship had failed although they intended on removing any existing search result filtering for their users located in mainland China. Over the past few weeks China’s government have publically stated that Google will be held accountable for their actions if they decided to disobey the
Recently I’ve been taking more and more of a dislike to Adobe’s Flash. I keep wondering why in this day, the age of “web 2.5″ we’re still using this nasty software. There are many reasons to hate flash and perhaps a couple to like it a little but don’t get too excited. Last month as
Is it just me or have you other illiterate people found you use Google to spell?! These days we can mash the keyword until letters appear and not have to worry about them being in the correct order or even if some are missing! Google has taken over the need for us to have to
Update 12th December 2010: It seems YouTube have finally listened to those in opposition of the Davidfarm YouTube channel and terminated his account. This seems a little extreme as he was apparently generating over $15,000k a month with his 40% revenue share, meaning Google themselves are losing even more. Perhaps there have yet again been external pressures
In recent times it seems Google’s web based email service Gmail is having problems more frequently than it’s ever known. Tonight I thought I’d post something about it as it really gets frustrating when you’re trying to access your mail and all you can access is a Google error page. I’ve been happily using