Newsy crap

I’m still not feeling particularly excited about the coming United States presidential election. I find American politics baffling at the best of times and the battle of the man with the endless chin versus the man with terminal foot-in-mouth disease doesn’t inspire me to gain a better understanding of the whole bun fight. The election […]

The whole space tourism scenario has taken another step forward with the privately sponsored SpaceShipOne scudded off into space for the second time in a week to easily beat the previous flight-altitude record for an air-launched craft and grab a $US10 million prize to boot. Designer Burt Rutan built SpaceShipOne and now plans to built

  Mr Microsoft himself, Bill Gates, has stunned the computer world by announcing that he’s never had a computer virus. That makes two of us, Bill. The comment was made during a speech at the Computer History Museum in California, when Mr Gates announced that Microsoft planned to tackle the growing spyware problem. Microsoft bashers

Everyone seems to be trying to woo high-speed net-users at the moment. Telecom has announced a new range of packages available from next month, including a 2Mbps plan  and Ihug launching its bliink system.

I suppose now would be a good time to feature Olympic Games sites, since we’re in the midst of Olympic fever. Well, maybe it’s more of a tepid spell than a fever. For all the latest news from the official Games site, try Athens2004. Interestingly, on the site it says that with such a high