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Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor — somewhere between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays. As I am sure you know, I introduced my colleague Alan to the term ‘Abandonware’ today. As a net-savvy individual, I was surprised he’d not come across it before. But, then again, it’s only really current among gamers. Abandonware is software that has been given-up by its original developers and publishers. Normally, it applies to old games which fans still love, If you start a job as an oil rigger, then there’s a 50% chance you’ll have a reportable accident within the next six months. After that period, the risk drops to 5% or less, as you get to know the ropes. That’s quite frightening for potential oil-riggers and for people in the oil and gas industry who hire Blizzard, the company behind the most successful and profitable entertainment franchise in the world*, World of Warcraft, held a mini-conference in Paris last week to announce that a second sequel to its Diablo series — Diablo III — was in development. Unlike a lot of press conferences, they invited along lots of fans, active forum members A TiddlyWiki, of course. You can see my very small TiddlyWiki here [no I don’t any more] or a more impressive example from Jeremy Ruston, who created the thing, at the main site. It’s a sort of wiki — but wait, come back! There’s a few interesting differences from the sort of wiki software you might be used to: So, apparently Internet Explorer 8 is available for download, according to my twitter colleagues and a certain Mister Gates. But don’t search for ‘ie8’ with Google, because you’ll get this:
One half of the screen is a search for news about ie8. The next suggests that I was probably searching for IE7. None of the remaining |             | |||
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