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- All hail the ZX Spectrum, 25 this month
Gamers of a Certain Age, unite.
Twenty five years ago this month Clive Sinclair’s Sinclair Research launched the ZX Spectrum; the rubber-keyed home computer that helped kick-off the personal computing revolution in the UK. This was a computer of limited means, hilariously so by today’s standards; it initially sported only 16k of memory, later a [...]
- Friday video fun: Messi vs Maradona
We get efforts like this down at the County Ground all the time, natch, but it seems a few folk are getting rather excited about an astonishing goal scored by Barcelona’s Lionel Messi midweek.
Below is a wonderful video clip, with equally wonderful commentary, comparing Messi’s goal (playing in the right hand frame) with Maradona’s [...]
- A word about my RSS feed…
The subscriber to my RSS feed will have noted they’re now getting the full, non-lite, verbose version of my posts here. This represents a change in policy, if not a change in heart about RSS’s limitations.
Reasons? I stated my problems with full text RSS feeds a couple of years ago. But at least some of [...]
- Webby awards: and the nominations are…
Update: do, please, vote for us!
We are, predictably, delighted and oh-so-slightly smug to learn of Guardian Unlimited’s three nominations in the Webby Awards, often described (not just by us) as the Oscars of the internet.
The thing that makes them special is that the shortlists are drawn up by an Academy of the internet’s great [...]
- This Blogger’s Code of Conduct
God preserve us from the Well Intentioned (WI). In the wake of the shocking Kathy Sierra episode, the WI have managed not to conclude there are simply some unpleasant people in the world who we should ignore, or report to the police.
Instead, the WI have proposed a new
- Technorati’s CEO search
Technorati, the blog search engine, is searching for a new CEO… I guess it would be snide to suggest that their search will take forever, miss the obvious candidates and eventually time out with no results? Oh well.
To be fair, Technorati is a site I use every day, which puts it in my top 10 [...]
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