The phenomenon of social networking...

There is a lot of hype on this subject around at the moment (and has been for a couple of years now) but I think this article best sums up some of my views on the subject.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=260924673&rid=-255

Hype, after all, is still hype. And to quote from MIB, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

Mourning a dead XBox 360

Well, it happened.  Just over a year and just out of the standard warranty, I received the red ring of death from my X-Box.

Glad MS extended the warranty for general hardware failures but it now means that I have to get it fixed somewhere?

Blogging from the Mac mini widget

OK, so I'm sitting in the study using my Linux box to VNC to the new Mac mini we got, which in turn is using the Blogger widget to send this post...  

Only if I RDP'ed from my Vista laptop to the Linux box could this have possibly been more complicated!!

Anyway, I have to say that I am well impressed with the Mac mini - it's just easy, sleek and so very, very reponsive.. it just works :)