Oct 10, 2010

One of the charming aspects of touring through the UK is that of visiting some of the castles and estates, many of which have mazes of varying difficulty. And the operators of those mazes have noticed a significant decline in the time being taken by their patrons in completing the challenge of the maze, and the reason for this is that these patrons have been...

Oct 10, 2010

Internet Explorer’s usage across the web continues to drop, and it is now being used for less than 50% of all web traffic. Firefox continues to hold about 30%, but Google’s Chrome has tripled its share to about 11.5%. I would expect that a major part of the remainder of that erosion would also be due to the impact of devices like the iPhone and...

Oct 3, 2010

In the US, you can now get edible Scrabble tiles Scrabble Junior Cheez-Its are now available, with more than a hundred in each packet, but the tiles, while having letters on them, do not have numbers. You’ll need a cheat sheet, and an oversized Scrabble board, if you want to play with these, because they’re a little bigger than regular Scrabble...

Oct 3, 2010

This week PC Tools launched their 2011 suite of products, which includes tools to help you to combat threats from various types of malware, including spyware, viruses, malicious email and social networking threats. The tools include PC Tools Spyware Doctor, PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus, PC Tools Internet Security, PC Tools Registry Mechanic and...

Oct 3, 2010

Or at least, using the internet to help reduce traffic jams. In metropolitan Boston, the MIT has been running a project, CarTel, which has been tracking the driving patterns of GPS-equipped taxis. In moving traffic, those vehicles all represent moving nodes on a network that happen to be drifting in and out of close contact with one another. The CarTel project...