Friday, 11 February, 2005

Keane to retire in 2006

Roy Keane has confirmed that he’ll be retiring when his contract runs out in 18 months’ time. Obviously, as a Forest fan, I’ve followed Keane’s career over the years, and I have to say I have never felt much antipathy…

FeedDemon decision

Well, my trial has finished on FeedDemon, and at the moment I’ve decided not to go ahead and cough up, mainly for one very good reason: BlogLines, which suits me better because it is more portable. If I had a…

New Cringely Column

Another great column today from Bob Cringely, this time on the subject of the resignation/firing of Carly Fiorina as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Usually I come up with my own column topics, but sometimes readers simply demand that I write about…

Good News / Bad News for Firefox

Computer Weekly reports that large companies are being warned off switching to Firefox. The Gartner report said Firefox’s growth, so far, was “unsustainable” as many of the features that had made it popular were primarily aimed at individual users not…

Comment Spam

In my absence I have been deluged with comment spam. Comments are now moderated, but I hope to get to them quickly. Not that there are terribly many…

Google to host WikiPedia?

Interesting post on Wikimedia here. Google Inc. has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects. The terms of the offer are currently being discussed by the board. The developer committee has been informed of…