Originally uploaded by renaissancechambara.During my recent travels I needed some light reading, but didn’t want to go down the mindless thriller route a la Grisham, Dan Brown or Tom Clancy. I took a few books with me, two of which I will cover off in this post. It’s not how good you are, it’s how […]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Irony bombing
Katie Price aka Jordan and her husband, former pop star Peter Andre released an album A Whole New World late last year to cash in on their celebrity status. UK music journalists panned the album as mawkish, citizen reviewers on Amazon UK took a more pragmatic approach. Heaping their copy with ironic over-the-top praise and […]
Jargon Watch: Clickprint, Collabulary
Clickprint – Derived from the amount of time that a user spends on a web site and the number of pages viewed. The combination is a unique fingerprint that can help a site owner identify return visitors, curb fraud and upset the user with invasive marketing. Yahoo! used to analyse over ten terabytes of data […]
Majestic Mk II
I remember the tech press hype in the US when it originally came out, it had an innovative gaming concept that tapped into the zeitgeist of conspiracy theory entertainment like The X Files (remember them) and 24. Majestic was a game by Electronic Arts (under the fictional name of Anim-X) that was very innovative in […]