Not all the reviews and articles I write are technical. For once, I thought I’d post about a recent experience I had while buying some new skis. Now, I’m no professional skier or ski-equipment reviewer, but I enjoyed testing out these two models of ski so much that I felt compelled to share what I found.

With my recent experience of building two Core i5 systems on Asus Maximus III Extreme Motherboards still fresh in my mind, I thought I would impart some of the knowledge to the general community to help people with similar or identical setups.

Google Wave to open its doors to more than 100,000 testers

More to prove that I can review more than technology, I thought I’d post a review about my recent experience and day-out to the indoor (real snow) ski-slope ‘The Snow Centre‘. My time there was all too brief, but it was enough to rekindle the joy of skiing. Having not skied for over a year [...]

Those of you who use Apple iTunes, and purchase music from the iTunes Store will be aware of iTunes Plus – Apples higher-quality DRM-Free music format. In the past, iTunes Plus music has always been differentiated from the non-DRM-Free music by the use of a little ‘+’ symbol on the track buy button, or with [...]

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Professional RTM is to be released through the MSDNAA (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance) on August 14th. This means that Windows 7 is available to Academics a full 2 months before it is available at retail. Hopefully this will make the retail release much smoother, and allow a lot [...]

After the scheduled power-down on August 2nd, services have finally been restored. There was a small issue with the boarder firewall not booting one of the ethernet cards when the power was restored, and thus the site was offline until 1030 today. The server power-down worked flawlessly, and the server backups were not needed. I [...]

This site will be offline between 0600 and 2000 on August 2nd, 2009. This is due to power-maintenance at the hosting location. Prior to the power-down, backups will be taken of all crucial domains & subdomains, as well as all running configuration files. This downtime will mark the loss of 390 days of uptime. Equinox [...]

A quick look at the Graze.com service.

“Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.” – Google, May 2009. To me, Google Wave is essentially a combination of Email, Forum, SVN, Sharepoint, and Instant Messenger. The approach they’ve taken to the modern internet communication is revolutionary. I can see a whole new terminology [...]