Google Unveils Hybrid Car That Plugs Straight Into Grid:
Not content with seeking to control the information super-highway, Google wants to influence what kind of car you drive.
Google really is taking over the world.
So on my lovely MacBook Pro, I occasionally have to run some windows programs.
To do this I do not use the much talked about Apple BootCamp, I use a very good program called Parallels. This provides me with the ability to run a windows program whilst I am in OSX.
Recently I ran out of disk space and was forced to resize the Virtual HDD that the Windows sits on. Luckily Parallels ships with a utility to do this call “Paralells Image Tool”. So I dutifully ran it, added an extra 8 gig to the image size, and then “rebooted” my virtual machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Wired: Brussels police have begun an investigation into a citizen’s allegations of rape — in Second Life.
Second Life, for those of you who don’t know, is the ultimate geek escapism. You create a brand new online persona, who is far cooler than the real you, and lacks any the social inadequacies that hamper real life geeks. You can get a “Second Life Job”, buy a “Second Life” house, marry a “second life” wife. You get the picture, its like a huge geeky experiment in escapism – basically what everybody thought the internet was when they first heard of it.
Apple finally fixed the issue with my Macbook Pro WPA connectivity.
Airport Extreme Update 2007-03 is the answer.
I am glad they fixed it but I was a little disappointed that they took so long. Didn’t live up to their reputation on this one – and to make matter worse, they kept very quiet about the issue even though their support forums were full of disgruntled mac geeks.
