I've just been reading about electric vehicles, which just might be a way of cooling down global warming before hydrogen powered vehicles finally come on stream.There are two interesting companies: Tesla Motors, which is about to release a two-seater sports car - powered by electricity, capable of … [Read more...]
My other half likes Windows Vista
May 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Well, Mr Gates may be pleased to know that his latest creation, Vista, has at least one fan here in Italy. My other half got a new PC at work, after the previous anonymous grey box kept crashing. Anyway, she likes the way Vista, remembers the functions you use most often and only presents you … [Read more...]
Ideas.
March 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I'm sure someone could establish a rule for this. What is this? Well, it's our capacity to dream things up which, eventually, become reality. Old Leonardo did it with the helicopter and other things. H G Wells and other Sci-Fi writers have done it too. What starts out as pure imagination … [Read more...]
Blue Ray – new tech, but old problems?
March 19, 2007 By 1 Comment
It looks as though DVD's are about to be superseded by these Blue ray high definition data discs. However, I'm not convinced that they are the bees knees.Recently we've had a few DVDs from our local rental shop which have been, very annoyingly, stopping half way through our chosen films. We do … [Read more...]
Dell 6400 – update 2
March 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I complained about the wifi on my newish Dell laptop in a few past posts. The wireless signal used to drop so often that it almost became predictable. Well, I finally got round to checking out the Dell site and I found an update to the Intel wifi management software. This update has made a big … [Read more...]
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