Paul Smith's Blog

My first ever picture taken with the new phone.

Apple are still advertising their dual 2.0Ghz PowerPC chip as being faster then a 3.6Ghz Pentium 4. I wonder how their legions of fanboys who claimed this to be the truth, that PowerPC wiped the floor with x86, will react at the news that they were wrong all along, and that we were right? Apple are switching to Intel, time for them to launch a campaign getting their Mac users to switch back....

As about 50 people have pointed out to me, some of the websites aren't working. That's correct the two name servers that handle the effected sites ns1.ukdnsservers.co.uk and ns2.ukdnsservers.co.uk are not behaving. As far as I can tell they've been down for about an hour. They had better be up soon.

Just the other day I came across Ryan Dawson's entry on his blog, he talks about the Start Menu and how it could be improved in Longhorn. When I got my Tablet PC it really hit me, running at 1400x1050 resolution really made it hit home - the Start Menu needs to be more prominent. Coming across his entry got me thinking more. I was a huge fan of the Windows XP Start Menu, sure a lot of people hated it, but I loved the quick access it can give to programs and links to My Music etc....

A pair of unpatched vulnerabilities in Mozilla's Firefox Web browser -- rated as "extremely critical" by one security firm -- could allow an attacker to take control of a PC simply by getting a user to visit a malicious Web site. Not good, and what's worse this exploit is actually out on the net today. This would mean the forth critical security patch for Firefox this year, when 1.0.4 is released, in comparison IE has only had 2, both of which were promptly fixed....

From the Guardian: Imagine for a moment that around half the population of Great Britain - men, women and children - died in the second world war. What kind of extraordinary trauma would this represent? How would "victory" in 1945 now be viewed, or even celebrated? Yet 27 million is the estimate of Soviet deaths by the end of the war. Actual British losses represented around 0.6% of the population; American losses were smaller, around 0....

Liberal Democrats grab 51.4% of the vote. 4.5% swing from Conservative to Liberal Democrat! Give it up Tories, we're never going back.

...It's your own bloody fault. I'm referring to Ann Toward's comments to the press about the death of her husband in Iraq. "It's Tony Blair's fault. He sent all those troops out. "If he hadn't sent them out [Anthony] would still be here. He shouldn't have done it." I hate to sound really cruel, but are you completely brainless? Anthony joined the military voluntarily, anybody who joins should be prepared to die, he wasn't forced into it, we don't have conscription he joined voluntarily, if you didn't like it you should of persuaded him to leave....

EGM 9.5, 10 and 10 out of 10. Better than Gran Turismo 4. I figured I'd write that when I reviewed Gran Turismo 5 one day, but this is Forza Motorsport, Microsoft's homage to the greatest driving sim around. Except the student has already lapped the teacher. 1UP 10 out of 10. I watched him take up the controller and gun the car from first to third off the line. The very first words out of his mouth were, "...

The Tablet PC - real innovation.