Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Two search requests on the internet website Google produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7823387.stm
This "Harvard University academic", Alex Wissner-Gross, has also created this highly dubious service:
http://www.co2stats.com/about.php
CO2Stats is very smart, and is able to capture a large amount of data about your site's total energy consumption. For example, it ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Wolf’s Spoor » Blog Archive » IRC in aber
RCS on IRC.
Any remaining Bitternet users may be dismayed to discover that they have been formally declared dead. Much like North Korea's Kim Jong-il, the secretive and hostile IRC network has thus far been reluctant to provide any evidence of whether they ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
While writing about moving domains to google apps, I got a little worried when I realised that Google owns my soul.
For example, yesterday I noticed that google had recorded 8,600 web searches performed by myself, going back who know how many months or years. I must have ticked a box ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Over the last week I have started migrating my domains to Google Apps.
Google Apps is google's package of services to essentially host an organisation's entire IT setup. This is a completely full service offering, from email hosting, to webhosting, including office apps like word processor, spreadsheet and shared calendaring, which ...
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