Over at Slashdot there is a story about Russia pushing for its own International TLD ‘.рф’. The comment put onto a Guardian article about this has turned some ‘cold war alarm bells’ on my side, hence I posted the following in the comment thread: I’d suggest Mr. kdawson next time to take a slightly less … Read more
Just about a month ago I have upgraded my BlackBerry from an old 7290 to a shiny 8800. What’s below is a quick summation of my impressions. Look and feel It certainly feels lighter and slimmer. Although it is a bit longer than 7290, it has no bulge — it is a plain candy-bar slab. … Read more
The Land of Wind, Ghosts and Minimised Windows Windows can’t, you see, just blithely stop drawing a program’s window when it’s minimised. I think that’s because you can’t count on programs to redraw themselves correctly, or because they may freak out if one or more of their various window-drawing strategies is not correctly bit-bucketed. … … Read more