Archive for December, 2005

Wikipedia: Increasing Reliability

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Numerous critics (like Andrew Orlowski) of Wikipedia have come out swinging since the news broke not long ago of various abuses its articles have suffered at the hands of ignorant and malicious “contributors”. I feel that the essential problem with Wikipedia (a site which I use frequently and value highly) is not so much the […]

Tiger Start Up Delay

Monday, December 12th, 2005

I’ve noticed that sometimes, Mac OS X 10.4 will start up more slowly than usual, and may appear to get “stuck”. This is characterized by the start up progress bar stopping before it reaches the end, but there is no crash message and the mouse pointer still moves. After a few moments, however, the progress […]

Digital Urban

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Digital Urban. Panoramas! 3D models! Brilliant!