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Category: Experimenting

  • 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…

  • The Last Supper in 16 billion pixels close-up

    The Last Supper, the most famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, has been posted on the internet as a very high resolution image that enables anyone to zoom in on minute details of the painting for close-up examination. HAL9000 (love…

  • Adding to the first line of blog spam defence

    Yesterday, I installed an addition to the first line of defence against comment and trackback spam that Akismet is so successful at. That addition is reCAPTCHA, a plugin for WordPress (with versions for other platforms), that adds a step to…

  • Virtual credit cards arrive in Second Life

    Yesterday I signed up for a credit card that I could use in Second Life. Today the approval came, so watch out virtual shops! The credit card comes from First Meta, a financial services firm based in Singapore, that has…

  • Japanese Wall Street to open in Second Life

    So businesses don’t think Second Life is worth investing their time and money in? Tell that to Dentsu and the financial community in Japan. The Japanese advertising firm is launching ‘Virtual Tokyo,’ a virtual megalopolis that will open its doors tomorrow…