I’ve had my new iPhone 3G for almost a week now and I totally love it. It’s easy to carry in your pocket and works flawlessly. I’m particularly impressed with the way the applications work together, and don’t under-estimate the usefulness of the GPS, even if it doesn’t do full turn-by-turn directions yet.
Here’s an example. […]

November’s Wired magazine (14.11) contains a lengthy and interesting article about cybercrime, botnets and DDos attacks (Distributed Denial of Service). We are all familiar with email spam and its yearly increase despite the proliferation and increasing intelligence of anti-spamware and bayesian filters. According to many pundits, 60-70% of all email traffic world wide is spam, […]

Junk Mail - we all get it and we all hate it. It’s a marketing fact of life that we can’t stop. Sure, we can reduce it a smidgeon by subscribing to opt out lists, but most of them are guidelines that are ignored. Even the USPS delivers junk right into your mailbox, and you […]

Since 9/11 the USA has been in an odd mindset, a sort of lethargic patriotism. For many people sticking a flag or yellow ribbon on their car is a simple gesture that they support the troops or are feeling patriotic about their country, but are otherwise free to go about their daily business. I appreciate […]

Unless you either live on Mars or have somehow managed to operate your entire life without a credit card or indeed any service operated by a financial institution; you cannot have failed the trend in recent years to include a fake credit card in with those ultra annoying credit card applications that fill your mailbox […]

There is an interesting article in Discover magazine, April issue. It discusses how human nature leads us to believe that we are always in the slow lane in heavy traffic. Apparently humans concentrate more on the vehicles passing them in the adjacent lane whilst they are moving slowly, than they do on the vehicles they […]