Most of the universities in New Zealand are on holiday now and that means there are countless hours of vital processing going wasted by fertile minds. To combat the stagnation of your neural pathways (remember: use it or lose it) here are two excellent essays: Tim Berners-Lee (he created the world-wide web): Long Live The [...]
If anyone has been wondering why the internet in New Zealand sucks and isn’t getting better, this is the reason: The Internet is physically stored on servers (most of which are in the U.S.A. Go here and search some sites for proof) and is distributed to our computers all around the world through these submarine [...]
Dear itcreeps, Okay, I'm not good at this kind of thing, but I feel like I have to give it a try. So, here goes: I was hanging out the other night, listening to some old mp3s, and I was just overcome with memories of when we used to hang out all the time. Remember? [...]
Never forget, this is what the internet was invented for:
Just to clarify a point from the first essay: I do not mean to propose anything about the actual name of the VR product. “Realise” is what I believe companies will call the process of virtualisation for the reasons I have already laid out. For now instead of referring to the ubiquitous “companies” I am [...]
Today I played the shittest flash game in the world for more than an hour which I only realised when the game printed this little “Achievement Unlocked!” thing which read
Played for 60 minutes!
This depressed so profoundly that I actually had to get up and leave the Internet for a while.
Ok, so a couple of days I saw this post in my feed reader from Google that lets Google Friends (or anyone, depending on your preferences) post comments on your site. Ideally I’d throw this on the end of every item so you could comment on it but I’m not sure how this gadget handles [...]
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As far as I can tell, you kiddies use the Internet for reading blogs, writing blogs, checking your email and fckbk. A big part of this Internettage involves you talking to one another on various chat platforms. I guess not very many people use things like MSN or AIM anymore because your favourite web-based applications [...]