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Snail mail, for real

BBC News: 'Snail mail' blazes slow e-trail Muriel, Austin and Cecil are snails for the electronic age. The gastropods have been fitted with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website. Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at 0.03mph

X-Com Apocalypse

Hubby managed to give me my all-time favourite PC game back, X-COM Apocalypse! It's running in a VM Ware install of MS-DOS, on the Mac Mini, which is contrary to all nature, but I don't care. It's one of the few games I completed

Someone stole my blog post

It's been an interesting week. As in the curse May you live in interesting times. Some weasel in Russia had been scraping my blog feed since the start of May and republishing all my posts on their spam blog with Google AdSense ads. They were stealing content from

WordPress theme: Henge

Hubby created a new WordPress theme: Henge, which I am currently using. The theme is released under a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license, it has a widget-ready right sidebar, and absolutely no sponsored links. I love it! Sponsored links are a nasty development in WordPress themes.

Blogger's code of conduct

BBC News: Weblogs 'need content warnings'. Readers should be warned when they are reading blogs that may contain "crude language", a draft blogging code of conduct has suggested. The code was drawn up by web pioneer Tim O'Reilly following published threats and perceived harassment

Themage

One of the handy things about WordPress is the ability to put together (or download) a theme and completely change the whole look of the site. Hubby built this theme for me, based around a picture of Tierra del Fuego, and I love it!

Forcibly upgraded

My computer got upgraded at work. While I am loving the new speed, wireless keyboard and mouse, and new display options, I also got Internet Exploder 7. I knew I'd encounter it at some point, and I don't like it. The way they've done

Data recovery

BBC News: Top 10 data disasters revealed. Hard drives kept in dirty socks and the dangers of oiling your PC feature in a top 10 list of data disasters. In one case, a university professor needed help after he tried to fix a squeaky desktop computer by squirting it with

Racing robots

BBC News: Robot rally cars face tough race. Twenty-three cars are setting off on a remarkable race across the desert. From a distance, the cars look like any other rally cars tearing down the dusty roads. But closer inspection reveals that something odd is going on. There's no-one

Blog the Country II

BBC News: Blog project reveals daily lives. More than 30,000 people across Britain have recorded a diary of their day as part of a project to create an online snapshot of life in the country. The National Trust said the entries - which range from the mundane to the

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