Archive: April, 2008

All Work and No Play Makes Facebook a Dull Network

Posted by bux - 22 April 2008 - Play

The walls have spoken. In the last week or so, Facebook has introduced a new feature called Lexicon (learn more), which allows you to enter a number of search terms and see how popular those terms are on people’s walls. The graph of “party tonight” when compared with “hangover” is quite predictable, especially around Hallowe’en [...]

Dell & Linux

Posted by bux - 7 April 2008 - Computing

I was never a big fan of Dell, mainly because it really annoyed me that they only shipped Windows with their machines. Reading The Microsoft File made it clearer, if no more acceptable; Microsoft bullied retailers to shipping tied processor–product bundles, effectively forcing other operating systems out of the market. Dell redeemed themselves in my [...]