Darkspore on January 5th, 2009

Despite some misgivings about spending money now, when my Dell Dimension 4700 rebooted on me for the umpteenth time, I told myself that I have had enough. The time had come for a much needed upgrade, that I had put aside for the longest time, despite the encouragements of my buddy Wilfrid, who had upgraded [...]

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Darkspore on October 6th, 2008

My gaming desktop has been dead for a while now, due to the blue screen of MS death. It says that a problem has been detected with my NTFS system. Uh-oh, that really spells trouble, for those in the know. A quick Google reveals that I am not the first (of course) and probably among [...]

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Darkspore on September 26th, 2008

Ok, I said I will not be blogging for a while, but I can’t help it. My warden sent me a URL about Google’s new T-Mobile G1. I guess she has been trying to dissuade me from getting the iPhone.
The iPhone is a beautiful piece of equipment that causes the heart to skip a beat [...]

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Darkspore on December 12th, 2007

For years, we had to put up with Microsoft’s incompetence at giving us a secure, full-featured, user-friendly web browser. No doubt, it is still the most common web browser on this planet, no thanks to MS’s dominance in the OS market, but it is still very shady in terms of security. I had switched to [...]

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Darkspore on February 4th, 2007

It’s yet another one of those Microsoft OS upgrades that have people talking. The forums are set ablazed by arguments from experiences good and bad. It’s not only affecting the gamers, who will have to upgrade to Vista in order to use DirectX 10, but it affects other users as well. The hardware companies had [...]

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Darkspore on January 12th, 2007

I stumbled across this very interesting site today, via one of the EDMs I am subscribed to. Immediate thoughts that came to mind was, “Oh #@*$ Microsoft is buying Firefox!”. On closer inspection, the astute observer will come to realise that it is yet another very well done parody of how Microsoft came about IE7 [...]

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