Yesterday I was on the phone with the software company Veritas (recently bought by Symantec) and their phone system mentioned flooding causing technical problems thus delays. Turns out that its the major Maharashtra floods that was affecting them! Yikes!
The person behind a website that reviews/comments on games’ suitability for children (amongst other things) has a very good article on the GTA debacle: simply put he blames the parents.
Today is the day when we celebrate that rare of species, systems administrators, the one day a year when it is encouraged to be nice to the people who say “sorry but you do have to use a login password” and “no, it is not our policy to let you take home computers, even if your five-year-old is a whiz with them”. So, be nice to them us, we’re all that stops you from certain doom the first time you delete an email that you really, really wanted. So happy systems administration day, my fellow freaks! :-)
Here’s an awesome yet extremely simple game. All you have to do is move around a series of connected dots so that none of the lines are overlapping. Sounds easy? Well, it gets very hard very quickly. Worth wasting an hour on :)
Here’s an excellent letter to Hillary Clinton on her case against Grand Theft Auto, the M-rated (17 year olds and older) computer game, that democrats were buying for their 5 year olds, that had some hidden content that could be accessed if you a) were technical enough, b) had lots of time to waste.
If vector graphics editing gets you going, you might like to take a look at the latest version of Inkscape, a completely free vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. They’ve added a whole bunch of stuff to the latest edition, many of which are explained in the screenshots section of their website along with, well, screenshots of what the effects do. Nifty.
Here’s a cool one. A completely free Windows program for playing TV stations via the Internet. Most of the stations available are regional US or Russian stations, but one of them is called “Ireland Live TV”! I’m not going to try it at work, but I’ll definitely let you know how it works when I get home, I’m really interested to see if it really is an Irish TV station.
Google, those wacky geeks with an unending thirst for creating cool stuff, have announced a brand spanking new sibling to their maps & globe systems: Google Moon!
UPDATE: try zooming in all the way :-)