According to The Enquirer, Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has purchased an iPod.

Hurray to iPod mentality!

obert Scoble, the renowned and popular Microsoft evangelist, has come under attack by various authoritarian figures like Joel and came up with defensive statements that, in my opinion, can seriously wound Windows.

Robert Scoble about Windows:

Does it have problems? Yes.

Is OSX ahead? Yes.

But Apple has always been ahead.

Might Longhorn mark a slow death of Windows?

The BBC runs an interesting article on future potential for ‘teleports’.

…within a human generation, we might be able to replicate three-dimensional objects out of a mass of material made up of small synthetic “atoms”…

…You capture it digitally, ship it over across the network, and then reproduce a physical object that looks just like the original object, and moves just like it…

The biggest challenge yet is how to construct objects with ‘nano-dust’. It is a huge barrier to get past and, in the mean time, just the mentioning of teleporting seems laughable.

I have been following the writings of John Dvorak for several months and in his column, he expresses the main difficulty that Microsoft are now facing.

All we hear about Longhorn, though, seems to be about the removal of one promised feature after another…

…These were the fancy file structure, the new presentation manager, and a communications system—things that were going to make the OS a platform for what were described as Service-Oriented Applications (SOA).

Longhorn is often characterised as Service Pack 3 and it can motivate a large proportion of Windows users to seek alternative platforms. One might add the statistic that half of all businesses still use Windows 2000, so can Longhorn give a compelling reason to upgrade? Clearly this will be a serious hurdle to Microsoft.

After Apple’s recent switch to Intel, let us see if Mac OS becomes available to third parties. This can easily balance the cost of hardware with the added value of security.

Longhorn: screenshots of prototypes

Fortune Magazine reports that Michael Dell, who has already become Linux-friendly, is interested in licensing Apple’s Mac OS.

…Dell (the company) has for several years fearlessly—and lucratively—sold servers loaded with Linux, the operating system Microsoft reviles and dreads. And as the industry’s top dog it wields more bargaining power with Microsoft than other PC-makers. So I emailed Michael Dell, now the company’s chairman, and asked if he’d be interested in the Mac OS, assuming that Apple CEO Steve Jobs ever decides to license it to PC companies. (For now, Jobs says he won’t.)

In the past two days, I noticed the Nazi analogy being used twice in two separate newsgroups in UseNet. That was when the point when members brought Godwin’s Law to everyone’s attention.

As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one…

…whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress…

he great news to Webmasters is that Google have filed a patent and, in the process, exposed some secrets. One of the interesting revelations, for example, is that Google prioritise domains which have been registered for a long time. Google also maintain a link ‘sandbox’, which prevents quick growth of sites with spam content.

…Gone are the days of pages and pages full of link farms. You must grow your links slowly to stay below the radar and be careful who you exchange links with. That means no more buying hundreds of links at once or other underhand tactics…

Webmasters, read the site carefully. Many valuable tips are listed.