About six years ago I built my own PC. To this day it outstrips any work machine I’ve ever had. Why is this? The PC is nothing extraordinary. It’s built around an AMD XP2100 processor on an Asus A7S333 mobo, with 750MB of Crucial RAM, running Windows 2000. When I put it together it was screamingly [...]
An Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman and Welshman get into a French car…
… and a Peugeot advertising exec says: Bugger. If the Rugby World Cup pans out according to form, none of those nations will progress to the semis. Perhaps Peugeot should have considered including a Kiwi or a Springbok in its advertising just to spread that bet: Apologies to any readers who actually thought there was going to be a [...]
For the first time ever people think ‘Apple’ more than ‘Microsoft’
For the first time ever, in the UK, people are seeking more information about Apple than Microsoft, and it looks like the world is about to follow. A couple of weeks back I posted my findings after playing around with Google Trends. One of these was, to me, astonishing: when plotting Apple vs Microsoft, the Google Trends chart search [...]

