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Month: December 2007

  • Installing Windows Vista SP1 release candidate

    A couple of days ago, I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1 on my desktop PC, a two-year-old Dell XPS Gen 5 that’s running Windows Vista Ultimate. Vista SP1 addresses some specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues…

  • Making up the rules as we go along

    This week’s Economist has a thoughtful leader story on the etiquette of telecommunications. The leader writer talks us through the evolving forms of communication since the 19th century as a parable of manners from Victorian dentists to modern airlines. That…

  • T-Mobile banning Twitter makes no business sense

    If you don’t understand it, don’t allow it. That could be the thinking behind why mobile operator T-Mobile has begun blocking Twitter usage in the US, and opening up a customer service debacle, not to mention a public relations one.…

  • Hammer Films lives again on MySpace

    After a 30-year absence, Gothic horror film maker Hammer Films is about to make a comeback, not in cinemas but on the web. Who can forget Hammer’s iconic low-budget horror flicks from the 60s and 70s, especially those starring Christopher…

  • Cuts from FIR #301

    Overflow from today’s FIR #301: 1-Minute News Movable Type blog platform goes open source LinkedIn makes its move Download FIR Cuts MP3s – Movable Type (9:29) | LinkedIn (2:53). Apologies for the iffy audio quality in these recordings due, we…