• Nostalgia ruled last night as I watched the very last Top of The Pops on BBC2 which we get here on cable TV. The one-hour special included clips from rock legends who were in the shows during the last four decades. The Rolling Stones. The Who. Slade. Blondie. T Rex. David Bowie. Wham. Madonna. Madness. And more. What a list! So ends an institution on British television after 42 years. It’s the 70s and early 80s shows that stand out…

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  • The French distinguish themselves, both statistically and anecdotally, ahead of Germans, Britons and even Americans in their obsession with blogs, says the International Herald Tribune. More than three million internet users, or more than 12 percent of those online in France, have created a blog, according to a study released in June by the ratings agency Médiamétrie, the IHT says. Some great sound bites from the paper’s feature: “You cannot be elected president of France without a blog,” said Benjamin…

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  • Version 2.0.4 of the WordPress blog platform was released yesterday. I’m planning to upgrade this blog to this latest version during the weekend. Apologies in advance if, for a short time during your visit, you see odd things or some things not actually working. None of that should happen but as part of the upgrade process includes taking prudent steps like deactivating all plugins during the actual upgrade, you never know. Hopefully it will all be as painless as the…

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  • I wrote the other day about my great experience with Dell. I mentioned how impressed I was with their service re my recent order for a memory upgrade. As I mentioned in that post, delivery of the order was delayed with the revised delivery date of August 4. So my expectation was set based on Dell’s timely communication with me on the progress of my order. So when the doorbell rang late yesterday afternoon, I was surprised to see the…

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  • Back in May, I watched a fascinating report on BBC TV about Cyworld, the virtual social network on the net in which 17 million South Koreans spend a lot of their time. That’s 35 percent of the country’s population of just under 48 million: […] One in three South Koreans has a Cyworld membership and amongst people in their twenties the take-up is 90%. […] At Cyworld’s headquarters, 3,000 servers handle traffic for the virtual world in a control room…

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