As can be seen, an update has been a long time coming. A lot of things have been different for me in the past few months and hence I haven’t been able to put my thoughts into words as coherantly as I once could, so I have abstained. Sterility has been playing on my mind since things started to change and I’m adamant that I don’t want to remain inproductive, at least not for any prolonged period of time. This [...]

Direct2Dell, the corporate weblog of the Dell computer company has announced that they are to roll out Linux pre-installed systems outside of the United States, available to order immediately. Ubuntu 7.04 will be factory pre-installed and, because of the wide hardware compatibility with the OS, the systems will be almost completely identical in hardware configuration to Dell’s Windows offerings. If you see the below configurations, built using Dell.com/uk, you will notice that both are almost exactly the same, the one [...]

The South Wales Echo are up to their usual tricks again. Clearly the person who comissioned this article is neither a rights or technology specialist. Todays “shocker” is that somebody has been allowed to create a group on the popular social networking website Facebook that is offensive to a particular individual. Dubbed the ‘Gemma Trigg Cheap Tart Club’, the group was created by the wife of a man that Ms Trigg allegedly got involved with. Obviously, she thinks that this [...]

The winner of the ‘Who can look most twattish whilst riding a piece of farming machinery’ competition has been won by Montgomeryshire MP, Lembit Opik, seen here posing with his girlfriend and her sister, both of whom were up for deporation back to Romania last year and in a hole of financial problems. I wonder why she likes him, eh?

Blackle is the energy saving search site. Based on Google, the customised engine uses black as its primary colour scheme, which is apparently more energy effective. According to their website, they have already saved approximately 96,728 watt hours of electricity. This is all based on the theory that a black background use less light to output the a bright colour (ie. white) and thus less power, which is a fact, in CRT monitors. However, on LCD screens it will have [...]