nick’s (n)-line life

Unfortunately, having neglected my blog [again!], and just come back to try after a long time away, it seems that it has developed some technical problems. Specifically, the pesky thing just wiped the post I had finished writing. Grrr… Anyway, a Wordpress Upgrade is somewhat overdue anyway, so I will try and get this [...]

Yes indeed, I do get excited by my tech toys. In this case however, I’m far from on my own. The Apple iPhone is perhaps the most beautiful toy to be touted for quite some time. The BBC has a video of CEO Steve Jobs showing off their toy; Apple’s official site also has [...]

I was quite stunned by today’s BBC news report (vid) which says that engineers plan to build the world’s first plastic electronics factory by 2008. The technology allows for the creation of plastic instead of silicon electronics and may prove to be revolutionary (some are saying that it’s akin to the discovery of the [...]

With Microsoft’s planned release of Windows Vista later this year next year Apple have changed their marketing tactics, we’re being told to: “Buy a Mac - It just Works”

Commentators have picked up on Apple’s increasingly aggressive marketing and it seems, to me, as if this might be linked to the imminent forthcoming Vista release.
I’m not [...]

We all enjoy finding new music to listen to, right? The downer is that radio, at least in the UK, is heavily geared towards giving airtime to only the hottest new and chic tracks. If you have taste that goes even a little bit outside the mainstream then you're not gonna get on well with [...]

Ok, I am totally in love with Google Earth!
Fun things I’ve been doing:

Looking round area 51
Hunting for terrorists in the Sahara desert
Whistle-stop tour of several North Korean Military bases
found my houses (and realised that it’s submerged in greenery :O )
Relived past travel itineraries
Tracked and measured my daily route to lectures (ok, that last one is [...]

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Taiwan protests over Google map
Taiwan has asked the internet search engine Google to stop referring to the island as a province of China on its map web site.
Not a fun decision for google to make. Either google continue to piss off Taiwan, or they get it in the [...]