With the idea of cloud computing now even appearing in the mainstream press, I was a bit surprised at Microsoft's latest venture.
We know Amazon is offering cheapie current albums as MP3 downloads, but I was more interested in 'legacy' artists - how's that for a nasty music/IT expression mash-up (and there's another!)?
Having got the latest 'BCS Debates' video on green issues and how they should affect IT policies in the can (as we presenters say...) I wanted to share an interesting green resource, about which I had mixed feelings.
...and let the heart decide. Thomas Dolby - around 1981. When we look at green issues it often comes back to power.
I'm following Stephen Fry on Twitter - and for the first time I'm seeing a use for it.
A couple of years ago I interviewed an expert in natural language translation - she'd have laughed at this.
The way technology has progressed on several fronts is nicely summed up by a recent Bowie experience I had.
We are pretty much all agreed that something will take over from man's patchy tenure of planet Earth.
Well, sort of, thanks to the wonders of modern media.
Are technology and its applications expanding too fast for you? Take two dictionaries into the IT knowledge shower?
It always seems quaint when you read old science fiction and it describes one super computer as being in charge of the world, or that knowledge about running machines has gone over to a small cabal of experts who know everything, or even do things by rote as a sort of religious rite.
A web developer friend of mine asked me a good question recently: is DNA a base 4 programming language?