ICT Enthusiast and photographer.
Check out this video of a tour of a massive Equinix Data Warehouse for the Web. Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive. Via: Digg
So you’ve probably already heard by now (maybe not) about how the name Windows Live Agora is the codename for the replacement of Windows Marketplace, unoriginally expected to be Windows Live Marketplace. But had you heard/noticed how the current Windows Marketplace site features a countdown to the new version, indicating that the launch will be on Monday the 28th of August at 7pm GMT (8pm BST).
According to the new Windows Live WiFi team Blog, Windows Live Hotspot Locator is now live and can be found at: http://hotspot.live.com With 106,978 free and paid WiFi hotspots in 99 countries, our Hotspot Locator makes it easy to locate wireless Internet access around the globe. Use the View on Map feature to see your search results on a map
Just got word today that a Windows Live Essentials Beta is on the way, but what is Windows Live Essentials, well it’s an upcoming product which we can consider to be the Windows Live equivalent of the Google Pack, here’s a better description: Windows Live is a new wave of online services-including e-mail, instant messaging, and security- designed to work together
Just saw a post by Rob on a Welsh View that points to a post by Bhuvana which contains a list of 50 common interview questions and explains in short how to answer each of them. It’s a good read and well worth checking out. 1. Tell me about yourself: The most often asked question in interviews. You need to have a short statement prepared
A sign up link for the Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta has just appeared on Microsoft Connect. To sign up, load up Microsoft Connect, click on Available Connections, then find Windows Live Messenger 8.1 and click Apply. Or better yet just click this link. Also reported at LiveSide!
Great news I’ve now updated my wordpress blog theme from Lush 0.99.7 to Lush 0.99.8 along with other minor bug fixes and tweaks, so you should now hopefully see some improvements, including: New header, thanks to Eric Cheung for suggesting a lighter colour for the tagline. Small colour changes in the sidebar, so your eyes rest easier. Small speed improvements,
Today, Microsoft have announced the availability of Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for Windows XP, available via free download at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx With this release, Microsoft is strongly encouraging web developers, enthusiasts and IT professionals to finalize their testing and ready their environments for the final availability of IE7. Microsoft is confident that developers and designers who optimize their web sites
I was just this minute on the BBC News website when I read the following headline title “Emergency calls – Drunks, blood and hoaxes. The view from inside the ambulance” which reminded me of a so called Tom Reynolds a blogger I meet at the First BritBlog BlogMeetup in London so I clicked the article link to see what it was all about and wow
About 2,500 astronomers and experts who meet today in Prague the Czech capital for the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) general assembly have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. Pluto had been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh. So to now have pluto effectively airbrushed out of school and university