Nickster’s View

I still love Google. I couldn’t live without it, although I haven’t really tried. However, this “index the world” strategy is progressing with such apparent vigor that you have to start asking questions. I don’t have any paranoid view on the motivation - it’s engineering excellence, solid commerce and benefit to society […]

First it was Outlook - I killed that because it was just too bloated. I grabbed Outlook Express, which coupled with Cloudmark’s Spamnet (now SafetyBar…why??!) did the job for me. Then it was Firefox - replacing an old, sloppy IE that just got too comfortable at the top and became too scared to […]

Finally my awaited Nokia 6630 is available on Orange and i’ll be getting one later this week. Have been checking out some accesories and software in anticipation and was looking at games in particular when it hit me.
Mobile gaming is retro gaming - a look at the screenshots tells me that fancy schmancy wireless […]

“The first step to being free is to not care what others think of you, Johnny Ramone was free,” said actor Cage during the unveiling.

At what point do you realise that your incompetence with IT is actually a liability and costing the company £££?
My long term beef with Vue/Warner was rejustified this evening when I went to check film times at 7pm on a Saturday night - probably the peakiest of peaks, and 100% expected. Until now the […]

I’m now literally gobsmacked : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4174519.stm
Two gems :
“The US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say”
“The plan for a so-called “love bomb” envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a “distasteful but completely […]

Prince Harry dressing as a nazi to a “colonial” themed fancy dress party is disgraceful and an insult to the 6m jews who were killed in the most horrific ways. Worse than a tsunami, worse than 911.
So how come one of the heirs to the throne feels that it is okay to joke about […]

Just as we have Moore’s law to broadly predict the increase of processor speeds, and Fitts Law to predict the response time given physical distance, as well as Sods, Asimovs, Murphy’s etc, I figured it was time to grab one of my own.
Nickster’s First Law of Prediction: when trying to predict consumer acceptance of […]

I feel like today’s Tom Sawyer…especially with every hour I spend at this institution…
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Tom Sawyer
Rush
A modern-day warrior
Mean mean stride,
Today’s tom sawyer
Mean mean pride.
Though his mind is not for rent,
Don’t put him down as arrogant.
His reserve, a quiet defense,
Riding out the day’s events.
The river
And what you say about his company
Is what you say about society.
Catch the […]