Robinb's diary

[Start drum role with audience screaming, in a stadium and a big boxing ring in the middle}

Its the battle that some of the geeks in this world have been awaiting for - 2 matches, feathuring the Software group, and the Hardware group. I hope you all brought your goggles, becasue this could get messy"

Ok, enough of the role play - I was never good at it, and I probably never will.

Incase the news has crept quietly past you - there is a war going on in the software and hardware devision.

Software:
Internet Explorer 7 vs Firefox 2.0

They both had major releases on the same day (19th of October) made to the general public - and is now a battle to see who is the best out of the bunch. Microsoft still trailing by only just releasing the Tabbing browsers, and Firefox releasing its 2.0 - the step beyond the tabbing (still working out what that is as the 'whats changed and whats new pages are <blank>)

My vote is firefox - whats yours?

By the way - anyone noticed what IE have done? Looks familar to Firefox - with the search panel in the same place, the tabbs in the same place, and oh look - the address bar in the same place.

And if you want to know - Yes, Microsoft are going to force this upgrade on us all. BBC news report stating that microsoft will put IE7 into the upgrade.

Hardware:

HD has come about - some people have HD ready TV's at home, whilst others wait until more movies and channels are availble to make the most out of their TV.

So, heres a dilema - what happens when you get 2 products that are both incompatable, but do the same thing?

Meet Blu-ray and HDDVD

Its going to be interesting to see how things develop - I think the deciding factor is when the Playstation 3 comes out as that is Blu-ray compatable. HD DVD Won't be. Go figure.

Overall:

Theres a war going on. Pick a side - any side. Soon see who the victor will be.

Robin

www.pando.com

fantastic service. Instead of spamming my mail box with 100's of megs of unless files, people can now send large attachments through this service :D and only send me a 23k link to my mail box, which then I can decide to download, or delete. No more logging into the web mail client to delete all the large emails manually, I can download them all.

One catch: Both parties must have pando installed. Which means the people are still going to be sending large emails to me...

*sigh*

Back to downloading this big email. Again. Slowly.

Robinb

PS the NUS card is being noticed for the change to NUS Xtra. Last years colour change did not matter one little bit to most companies. Its a student card. its got NUS on it. The date is so small that no one has time to notice. change the name and *bingo* everyones now noticing. and as some people already have them and using them, this leaves me with about 3/4 of a month overlap time to beg, pleed and annoy managers to give me a discount until it arrives... Joy.

Back to work.