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Gmail offers Infinite+1 storage?! (08:42) - If this is an April Fool's joke, it's not very funny (unless you like really geeky jokes): Google is now promising to keep Gmail's storage limits ahead of every webmail provider. At least, that's what they're claiming on the Gmail... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Govt Internet speed = 5mph (16:10) - A report about the future of the Internet, commissioned by the US government in 1998, has finally been published, sayeth CNN. Maybe if they'd used a wiki it would have gone quicker? (I know, I'm a hopeless optimist!)... | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Business values (07:26) - Jason Kottke recently turned his blog into a full-time profession and recently posted about his business influences. This makes for interesting reading, especially the excerpt from Dave Egger's ideology for McSweeney's, which focuses on publishing mid-size numbers of mid-list authors... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Blue Wire (07:12) - A friend of mine, Al Crowley, has just started a new IT services company to serve small businesses and home users in the South Jersey area! Al's a superb technical talent and an astute businessman. What's more, he's a thoroughly... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Euromail vs Amerimail (09:29) - Slate has an interesting article about the different e-mail styles of America and Europe. This shouldn't be all that surprising, given how readily the two continents see themselves as different, but it is because I think everyone regards e-mail and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Soft dinosaur tissue found (20:56) - MSNBC reports today that scientists have found soft tissue from a T.Rex! Personally, I've been quite comfortable in the past knowing that dinosaurs are really very dead, so dead they're basically stones. The knowledge of soft bits of 'em lying... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

OurMedia.org lives! (11:48) - This rates as the coolest development in quite a while: Ourmedia has launched. With a mission to provide free-and-no-catches-we-promise infrastructure (disk, servers, bandwidth) to anyone who wants to publish anything at all, Ourmedia aims to be the core of new... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

UK TV channel 5 offers program downloads (09:11) - Five is the UK's newest terrestrial channel, known as being very scrappy and trendy-controversial (e.g. showing soft porn after pub hours). But there may be a glimmer of innovation entering their strategy, as they have begun to offer downloads of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tivo and Apple - an "a-ha" moment? (10:28) - If Apple buys Tivo, they won't do it to simply replicate the iTunes Music Store for video content. They'll do it to win another battle in the long war to capture the heart and soul of family life -- the content we produce and consume -- and they'll do it at Microsoft's great expense. | 108 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

GoogleMaps reveals inner truths (11:39) - Google identifies AOL as my local source of porn, and The Salvation Army as my nearest adult store. | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Bush is outright lying (20:05) - The GAO has confirmed that Bush's statements on Social Security in the State of the Union address were "a gross inexactitude." Here's why, and why politicians and journalists of all stripes should be clamoring for Bush's head. | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Bill Gates - "struggling to concentrate" (20:38) - This BBC story, about some doodles by Bill Gates, is just too delicious. On the one hand, the press-hackery is exposed as reactionary and, on the other, Mr. Microsoft is identified as "not being a natural leader" and "struggling to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Getting Things Done (15:50) - Need to get organized? David Allen's book looks like a valuable tool to let you do just that. | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

As if by magic... (12:03) - As if by magic, Mr. Benn is returning to British TV screens after publication of a new book. Another step of regression into childhood awaits... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Google brings offline to online (15:55) - Google has announced that it intends to scan books held in certain libraries and make them available online. This is a fantastic idea, and surprising that no-one has thought of it before. As one of the quoted librarians notes: It... | 39 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

"And we're gonna slap PeopleSoft's mama, too!" (10:23) - Oracle buys PeopleSoft. The military has another reason to worry. | 28 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Woman, explained (11:06) - This is from quite some time ago but I thought it was so funny I had to mention it. Haynes manuals are famous in the UK for their comprehensive description and guides to repair of cars, mostly used by men.... | 146 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Relieving debt, building wealth (12:25) - Seen in this light, the UK's debt relief may be as much prudent domestic economics as it is a humanitarian thing to do. If BP et al can now operate in a more stable environment, isn't that good for the UK? | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Grrr (08:54) - Our house is united in one thought: This man has deflated a whole nation because of this. Grr.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

IBM to launch Office on Linux (12:29) - InfoWorld reported yesterday that IBM intends to migrate Microsoft Office to Linux. This is audacious and incredibly smart...if it's true, and possible at all It could seem quite an odd initiative, as OpenOffice/StarOffice are both maturing well and are largely... | 2 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Name change (14:30) - I changed the name of the blog today from The Fella to Defenestrated. The reasons aren't that interesting. I like the name better. Most of the stuff here is "thrown out the window," so to speak, so it seems appropriate.... | 33 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Culture can lead to profit (22:56) - Tom Yager's one of my favorite columnists in "InfoWorld", the weekly technology magazine. In his latest column, he discusses analyst's proclamations of doom for major companies, based on their last year's financial reports and the size of their competitors. He... | 8 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Vodafone going for gold? (22:23) - Interesting reports have emerged of Vodafone dumping the idea of buying the searching-for-a-suitor AT&T Wireless and, instead, considering an outright hostile takeover of Verizon Wireless. Verizon clearly leads the US mobile phone market but is heavily invested in CDMA, rather... | 247 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

America: CALM DOWN! (12:29) - Reuters posted an interesting sidebar called Transatlantic Allies Poles Apart Over Breasts in which opinions from both sides of the Atlantic are aired...in much the same way as Janet Jackson exposed her, er, views during the Superbowl.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments