Traversing the world of geek!

So my first on Geek-Speak, what should I do? Should I reinforce my geekness, demonstrate my powers of geek-fu? Should I delve deep into the quagmire of technological and scientific issues that abound, or political matters facing geekdom?
Nah.
Lets go for a news round up of recent geek news from the silly to the “what the…” [...]

Net Neutrality - Important or not?

Should Internet Service Providers be able to decide on your behalf what content is more valuable? For instance, if I decide to watch the latest episode of Doctor Who on the BBC iPlayer, and later decide to watch the highlights of Formula 1 from the ITV website, should my ISP be able to decide that [...]

iPhone Update

For some reason, my feed-reader had quite a few items about the iPhone in it today, and these three from MacWorld particularly caught my eye:
No iPhone price cut from O2
The iPhone’s provider in Germany, T-Mobile, has chosen to subsidise the cost of buying an iPhone by €99… nice! MacWorld obviously asks the question of whether [...]

eSports on the rise?

Pro-gaming (or eSport) is a bit of an underground thing in the UK at present, but according to this item from the Guardian today, it’s on the rise. Pro-gaming is already huge in the US, and in some far-eastern countries where tournaments are played for sizable prizes (cash payouts, holidays, or new tech toys).
My [...]

Google launch their own Time Machine

If you ask me, this goes a step beyond Apple’s attempt at a Time Machine. Google have announced the ability to use Gmail to send e-mails into the past!
Forgotten an anniversary? Missed a deadline? Not to worry, just tell Gmail you needed that e-mail to be there last week and they will handle everything for [...]

5 Social Sites I Love

Last.fm is the first “social” site I joined, if you don’t count various subject-specific forums. The basic idea is that you download a piece of software that keeps track of what music you listen to and submits it to Last.fm where it’s compiled into charts for you and other people to browse through. Here’s where [...]

Slight change of plan

You might have noticed a slight difference to the site if you’ve been paying close attention lately

The permalinks have changed from their previous “human readable” version to a quite horrible number instead
The tag cloud has vanished from the sidebar

On the surface, these are both disadvantages, but underneath they are a by-product of what I hope [...]

Energy Saving Day: Fail

Energy Saving Day, designed to encourage people in the UK to save electricity for just one day, has failed to influence a drop in energy consumption.
Energy usage was predicted for a “normal day” by the national grid, who then monitored the actual usage throughout E-Day (6pm 27th Feb to 6pm 28th Feb). The hope [...]