It seems with the loss of Veronica Belmont that Mahalo Daily is in search of a new presenter to run it’s daily ‘interest’ show. Although in true ‘Calacanis’ style, they’re not just interviewing; they’re creating a full-blown web2.0 event out of it – aptly named ‘Mahalo Idol’. Auditionees are invited to come to the Mahalo [...]
15
Apr
15
Apr
To dual or not to dual…?
DELL have a sale on monitors here in the UK and so I’m very tempted to go ahead and take advantage of this :). Here’s the problem… I’m not sure whether to go for dual monitors, or one big one. I have a 22″ DELL at the moment, so it’s either get another 22″ and [...]
15
Apr
Twitter can’t decide…
Just a little humorous message that made me laugh today. I was updating my picture on Twitter (as some of you may have already noticed :)), and got the following error message: As it turns out; it was too large. It just made me laugh that they didn’t put the few lines of code in [...]
15
Apr
VoIP & MSN on the iPhone!
What a great time to be getting on board… my new iPhone is ordered and will arrive on Monday. I can’t wait… and now I can’t wait *even* more. My one hold-back was no native solution for MSN chatting and VoIP was something that seemed as obvious a service to feature on a 600MHz processor-wielding [...]
09
Apr
What our industry needs
Two words: Editorial & Accountability. There are hundreds of ‘blogs’ out there, 99% of which report the exact same stories, sometimes with a slightly different twist, or humour added, but rarely is there any editorial added; a dialogue that transcends the facts and places the pieces together to make sense of the story in context. [...]
09
Apr
Speak of the Devil, and the devil he doth appear
I posted earlier on poorly designed error messages and the very next message I opened rewarded me with this error message. A brilliant error message I’m sure you’ll agree; telling you nothing of the problem nor giving you any suggested course of action to solve it! I think that’s been in Outlook Express for 7 [...]
09
Apr
Microsoft Update pushes 10 updates this Tuesday
I turned my computer on yesterday to find a barrage of updates from MS Update… you can see this both ways. a. It’s great they maintain their products b. How do they find so many updates each week; and also why do we wait (at worst) a week for an update that’s done? To be [...]
