Author: Paul

I recently commented on an article by WebSideStory (via business2blog) which indicated that while interest in Firefox is growing, that growth is beginning to slow.  It turns out that these statistics are somewhat misleading and don’t take into account a whole segment of the market and factors such as Linux distributions coming pre-loaded with Firefox. …

Under a month since her departure from HP, Carly Fiorina is said to be on the shortlist for president of the World Bank.  The Seattle Times and Los Angeles Times have both reported that: Ousted Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina is under consideration to be World Bank president, a Bush administration official said, adding that…

Jeremy Wright has written an interesting post titled "Bloggers aren’t ethical".  He makes this argument on the basis that bloggers are driven by slightly different considerations to journalists and while there have been a host of complaints about journalists who violate journalistic ethics, journalists are generally held to an ethical standard whereas bloggers are not.

Engadget has reported that Bill Gates is to be knighted (albeit it an honourary knighthood): Queen Elizabeth is going to make him a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to enterprise??.

The BBC has reported that the Holocaust denier, Ernst Zundel, has been extradited to Germany to face charges for violating a German law against denying the Holocaust. It took Canadian authorities two years to establish whether Zundel, who authored a book called "The Hitler we loved and why", posed a security threat. During that time,…

I found out that Wil Wheaton landed a role in CSI, one of my favourite shows, a little while ago.  It turns out the show he stars in will be aired on 10 March.

I just spent 20 minutes constructing a post about the value of blogging and I lost it when I did something stupid.  I ran a Google search for another link to add to the post and forgot to run the search in another window! Geez!

You would have to have been living in a cave not to know that one of the big ‘New Things’ is desktop search following on from web search.  There are a couple offerings available already.  The better known applications are from Google, MSN and Yahoo (a free variant of the X1 desktop search application).  Unfortunately…