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“If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.” – Steven Wright
This weeks chat touched on quite a few subjects, news readers, Gareth’s experiences with Snow Leopard, and the reason I haven’t had any yet. We even had a chance to have a dig at Windows, all in all we could have left it there. But we’d made all the effort to get together.
So it was on to the stories…
Rumour: Apple TV news at iPod event - Is Apple going to put some effort into their hobby. Or is the promising media hub being forgotten about in Cupertino. Maybe Steve has put some time into the ‘summer project’, recovering from his recent bout of illness. Or he could have been playing ‘paper toss’ the whole time, that shit’s really addictive.
Britains oldest working computer roars to back to life – The Harwell computer the world’s oldest working ‘stored program computer’, will be restored If the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park can raise the funds. It has 112.5 bytes of memory, and could take up to ten seconds to complete a single multiplication. It was designed around 900 noen-filled valves, called dekatrons. I love that name dekatron. I want a dekatron, purely because the name sounds so cool. Sounds like the baddest Transformer ever built.
Japan to spend $21BN on a power station in space – In about four years, Japan intends to have a solar array in space, using a microwave beam to send the juice back to earth. Sounds like something that’s waiting to be hijacked by a Bond villain. Or it might just be to warm up Godzilla’s movie snacks.
Top 10 gadgets for social media addicts – Us geeks like lists, comparison charts, and specifications. And a top ten of gadgets is practically geek porn, so Gareth pounced on this with relish. Shall I tell you the number one….. No, you’ll have to listen to the show, I’m such a tease.
eBay reaches deal to sell off Skype – What do you do when you have something you no longer need, or know what to do with. That’s right you put on eBay. You know your not going to get what you paid for it, but it is second hand after all. Impulse buys are a bitch, aren’t they.
Unexplained phenomenon Google logo: Can you explain it? – Strange happenings in the Google logo on the search page. Normally there’s a reason for a change to the logo, a holiday or anniversary of a famous event. But this time just a animation of a UFO, tractor beaming an ‘O’ away, which linked to an apparently random page on strange phenomena. Just Google messing with us. Or, has an engineer seen through Eric Schmidt’s disguise, and is trying to warn us.
Sony signs Google browser deal – Mountain View again in this story. In a deal talked about as, the first of many, Sony is making Chrome the default browser in all new PCs. I wonder which manufacturer will be the first to ship Chrome as the default OS in their new PCs. Can’t wait for that one, ‘cos its a small step from there to Ballmer selling Windows licenses at a yard sale.
