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ASUS EEE big size!

Slashdot has a link to the first full review of the big size ASUS EEE micro laptop. So check it out! Despite the fact they make a pink one, I'm less convinced than I was before that this is the right laptop for (say) someone's mother. It might still ...

Metallurgists blame Titanic disaster on rivets

Slashdot has it here, I'll quote just a little to pad out my content:The team collected clues from 48 Titanic rivets and found many riddled with high concentrations of slag, a glassy residue of smelting that can make iron brittle [...] With the right...

No pea soup for breakfast today

We've had crazy fog each day this week in Folkestone, but not today, it was lovely back and home and also nice here in London.Didn't sleep on the train in today, I suspect it's because the wife wasn't there beside me, she's taken the luxury of a day ...

Digg

Hmm, are Apple really going to give me a free battery? That would be nice. Via digg.com, a newish slashdot.org type thing. Got lots of nice AJAX functionality on it....

Looks like he wasn't a winner

Here are the five finalists, it's all a bit Blue Peter, and somehow connected to Google's new London office. Thanks Slashdot for that, normal service will now resume... ...

Google-maps hack WHACKED!

read more on Slashdot... I think most of the interesting map sites ought to be safe, the site in question was ripping the satellite images (which we poor brits aren't even allowed) and stitching them together to make big deskto background images.Keep...

wikipedia is to be made available as a DVD

according to slashdot.org... Hope the nastiness in the Folkestone wikipedia entry doesn't slip back in before then.

Spyware schmyware

Using Microsoft's andti-spyware has been rolled out at work now, and while it doesn't think Firefox is Spyware (that's probably a fake screenshot) it is coming up with a lot of warnings, including some about MSIE itself every day, including warning m...

Who was talking about Bloglines the other day?

Seems they've been bought by Ask Jeeves... I should read slashdot.org every day, I think I will.On the subject of search engines, some of my results that are getting number one placings on search.msn.com aren't even in the top 500 on google, what's g...