I’ve read a few posts over the last few days which try to answer the question ‘what is the cloud’. Not conceptually ‘what is it’, but physically what is if made off, what servers, data centres etc. To my mind the point of the cloud is that as a customer you don’t need to know …
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Sunburn, Jetseal and Carnauba Wax
Over the past year or so my car’s been looking a little worse-for-wear. What with moving house and the long commute I’ve not really had a chance to wash it as much as I used to. Having read though a tonne of car cleaning threads on Seloc I thought I’d tool up with some new …
Going for a drive…
After having a fantastic drive to work this morning, I thought I would dig out an old route for a ‘run’ I’ve done with the Lotus guys in the past. It’s based around the country roads in Surrey and Sussex and starts fairly close to my office finishing not too far from home. With the …
Why is it…?
…That when you close MS Word, the ‘X’ closes just that open window… but when you close Excel, the ‘X’ closes all the open Windows? Seems like an odd inconsistency.
Pointless bad press…
A few months ago MS announced that it was going to cut off the DRM servers that support the old MSN Music service, effectively limiting what people could do with the music they had paid for. It turns out that they’ve now changed their mind and decided to keep the servers going until 2011… so …