Web Design, PC Repairs, Internet Help in Spain
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The Cult of Tech and the Tech of Cults
Ok, I admit it, the title is a shameless attempt at attention-grabbing, but it masks a serious point: corporations are trying to be the new religion. If you feel any hint of hurt on reading that Apple-lovers must perish, or conversely any slight surge of triumphalism, then [...]
1. Become, like, really good at loads of things and then write about them.
2. Get to know loads of really influential people and then write about what you think they’re gonna do next.
3. Carefully cultivate Robert Scoble’s friendship and then when he’s not expecting it, write a really nasty post that he will link to [...]
To start with, I have no idea if this is legal or not, I think it is, but you do this at your own risk. Sorry, this is Windows only- I have a Mac but it’s an old one and a bit rubbish so I only use it for checking websites on.
First, go to http://www.foobar2000.org/ and [...]
I’ve been doing some research lately into developments in wifi and posted about it already here.I’m trying to make sense of it for myself, as a ‘lay’ person who knows a little bit about wifi and wants to know more, and I hope passing on what I find out will be useful to others.
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I read with interest on Techcrunch that a new website described as ‘the eBay for services’ is about to be launched. This happens to co-incide perfectly with a plan I have to give tech support advice over the phone- precisely the kind of thing that Ether is being set up for, being a marriage of [...]
As someone who has just jumped into the blogosphere and finds myself gradually sinking under the weight of opinion (which I feel compelled to add to here, of course)- I am trying to work out whether we are in the throes of another dot-com boom, but this time it’s [...]
You may have noticed that there is an Asides category at the side of the page- this is a kind of Mini-Me to the main blog’s Austin Powers, and I’ll be posting little snippets and links to interesting and related stuff there. I call it ‘Info-Tapas’ after the popular Spanish dish of ‘tapas’ – not [...]
Living in Catalonia, as I do (I hesitate to say Spain, as it may not be part of Spain for much longer), I am fascinated by the fact that not so very long ago, the place where I live my (for the most part) very tranquil life, was the scene of terrible atrocities- for example [...]
There seems to be a developing buzz about the new Spanish start-up company FON around the blogging world at the moment. As someone very interested in the changes that are happening around Web 2.0 and P2P applications, plus someone who like the owner of FON is an english speaker in Spain (it turns out he’s [...]
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