« Previous Entries

Web 2.0

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. The following video shows how these technologies are effectiving how we use the net.

The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Legal Music equals Prison

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

It’s approximately too early on the 1st of August, and I feel like a moan. DRM or Digital Rights Management - I hate it. Seems I’m not the only one either.
DRM, for those not in the know, is the technology which manages access to your music and video, enabling it to be securely played. Now [...]

Spam of the Day: “Hi, Mario”

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

“Hi, Mario
I am a lovely and lonely Lady who is looking for the man who will make me happy and whom I want to feel like in paradise with!
If you want to be my beautiful Hero who will save me from this loneliness find me
http://www.planet-oflove.com/
and wake me up with a warm kiss.
Yourth faithfully
Folvyn”
What the heck? [...]

The Internet - It’s not a truck.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Theodore Fulton Stevens (born November 18, 1923) is an American politician from Alaska. He is currently the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate. In addition he has a highly avant-garde knowledge of the Internet. For example: did you know that the indeed is “not a truck”, and in fact consists of a “series of [...]

Tiscali’s Somewhat Hypocritical ‘Fair Use Policy’

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Dear Customer,
This email contains important information regarding your broadband account.
Your broadband Internet usage has been highlighted as exceptionally high during peak periods and is affecting the service that we provide to other customers.
All of our users have the right to an acceptable quality of service, and to ensure this Tiscali employs a Fair Use Policy [...]

DivineOmega knows where you live!!!

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Be afraid, be very afraid for your exact location is being tracked and targetted. Muahaha!!!
Go here to be tracked.
Sir, fire all missiles!
Note: I can not guarantee any/all missiles arrive at their destination on time. Please report any problems with your home city’s destruction to the support e-mail address, missile_control@divineomega.co.uk.
What others are saying about: Missiles, hostip.info

Internet Explorer Users

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Firstly, let me get one thing settled. You are using the wrong web browser. You should be using the correct web browser (Mozilla Firefox).
Interesting thing happened recently. Since Microsoft’s Internet Explorer does not comply to website rendering standards it causes a malformation of the layout on my page. This has occurred ever since I added [...]

EVE Offline

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

EVE Online is recently EVE Offline. After installing their new servers, releasing new patches and having many more members join (probably as a result of the previous two) the main ‘Tranquility’ servers have been collapsing.
Apparently, this is due to memory leaks which have been caused very systems to go into a vegetative state (New Calari [...]

Google Blacklists BMW

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

The website of the German car manufacturer, BMW, has been ‘blacklisted’ by Google. This was done due to BMW’s German website influencing search results to ensure top ranking when users entered a search for ‘used car’.

“Google has now reduced BMW’s page rank to zero, ensuring the company no longer appears at the top.”
“BMW admitted using [...]

« Previous Entries