Author: Paul

It is not a shock to hear that Internet Explorer 7 will have a tabbed interface.  The question that one can ask is whether this addition is a part of further development in the interests of really improving Internet Explorer or more of a reaction to the massive popularity of browsers such as Firefox that…

Sometimes I wonder how people can be so short-sighted.  BBC News has reported as follows: The environment ministry said 26,000 sq km of forest were chopped down in the 12 months prior to August 2004. The figure is the second highest on record, 6% higher than the previous 12 months. Deforestation was worst in the…

The US Government is going hi-tech with its plans to roll out Federal identity documents and passports for its citizens.  Of course these measures are being implemented due, to a large degree, to 9/11 but this is part of a growing trend that many governments are following.  Our own government is working on extensions to…

Washingtonienne is being sued about a year after her expose about her relationships with several staffers in Washington DC: A staff attorney for Republican Senator Michael DeWine has filed suit against Jessica Cutler, aka Washingtonienne, for the publication of their sexual relationship on her blog last year. In a clase of 15 minutes of fame,…

So, notwithstanding the nightmares many people went through installing Apple OS X Tiger recently, Chris Seibold reckons a Mac is better than Windows. It may be difficult to objectively quantify the Mac superiority yet it exists. The great stuff about the Mac is in the small things, the brushstrokes as it were. These are the…

How does your company handle bad news?  Do you or your managers circle the wagons and pretend that everything is just fine?  Do they keep bad news a secret in the hope that no-one will notice?  Or do they let their employees know the bad news and enter into a debate about the news? If…

After rumours and talk, Google has announced that bloggers will be able to incorporate AdSense into their feeds: If you’re like many savvy web users, you may be reading this via a feed reader, along with all the other blogs, newspapers, and other content that interests you. Whether a feed is Atom-enabled or RSS, it…

Interesting news on the Web.  Newsgator, proprietor of fine feed aggregator software, has purchased Bradbury Software, developers of the Windows based feed reader, FeedDemon. This transaction reportedly fills a gap in Newsgator’s offering, namely a desktop feed reader.  The new product will be marketed at Newsgator’s Desktop Edition to complement the existing Outlook, Web, Mobile,…