Nothing to do with technology this, but it is to do with racism, multiculturalism, and my old country, Britain. A recent piece by Carol Gould of FrontPage magazine: The First Step to Britishness Is Your Poppy The poppy is a symbol of the terrible loss of life in World War I in the fields of … Read more
Email scams seem to be getting more and more sophisticated. I got two this weekend that I hadn’t seen before: One nearly fooled me into trotting off to Paypal and giving up practically all my personal data, the other almost convinced me I was being pursued for love. The Paypal scam, according to Codefish, is … Read more
Not a lot of interesting stuff to report today so I thought I would offer you this (not particularly new, but still cutting-edge) gadget for USB port: a coffee warmer. AkibaLive reports the Sunbeam USB-bus powered coffee warmer will “keep your coffee warm at a temperature of around 40 degrees Celsius for 120 minutes. The … Read more
Interesting discussion about Bluejacking — the new craze whereby folk send messages to unsuspected cellphone/PDA users across the room — on Slashdot. The impression I get is that parts of Europe have already been using the Bluetooth function on phones to spam other people for some time. One contributor says that in Copenhagen …every other … Read more
From the Simple But Useful Dept comes news of software from China that helps you back up drivers — software needed to run hardware — so if something goes wrong, you don’t end up rummaging through old CDs, cardboard boxes or floppy piles to find the right driver. Driver Magician can also back up and … Read more