Wise Buddha

If you are considering selling your notebook on eBay and either being economical with the truth when describing said item or fail to wipe the hard drive then global humiliation awaits you here.

I know this is late but I want to plug the absolute best album of 2005 Feeder ‘Pushing the Senses’ if you haven’t got it buy it …no not from iTunes you idiot!
also new albums from Snow Patrol, The Flaming Lips and Embrace

YouTube is the most popular video site on the web blowing Google away - MySpace is number two. You can read some interesting stats about the video market here

Here’s another quality blog that provide great commentary on web and technology - Henry Blodget is a former Morgan Stanley technology analyst and is a good commentator check out his blog the Internet Outsider.

Talk about big company mashup maybe this is the ultimate - Apple and Nike have announced a deal that allows you to use your iPod to keep score as you put the miles in. Buy a new pair of Nike sneakers with a little pocket for a transmitter and beam your stats for review on […]

Tim Berners-Lee the ahem British inventor of the web and in particular HTML is a wily old sage and has good things to say on keeping the web accessible for all. Here is an interesting view from T B-L on why it is important that we don’t see the development of a […]

Recent internet usage figures for the traditionally hard-to-reach 18- to 24-year-old market ranks MySpace ahead of the usual suspects Google, MSN etc. According to internet measurement firm Comscore, users spend almost 30 minutes per session on the site, averaging around 6.4 visits overall per month. For a short but sweet overview of MySpace and future […]

We’ve got to the stage where commentators are referring to the cultural revolution that is iPod in almost biblical terms - before iPod and after iPod etc. So it is interesting to note that audiophiles who have long sniffed at compressing music and favour vinyl have now decided the iPod makes the audiophile grade read […]

If you’ve read any of my previous posts you’ll know that I hate DRM particularly as it relates to music files that have been legitimaely purchased. The French have fuelled this debate recently by stating that Apple should make it’s software i.e. iTunes and music purchased from iTunes music store compatible with other software and […]

I’ve just got back from a quick trip to Vegas . It is one of the few places where rich and poor literally rub shoulders - well at least when the high rollers are strolling to the high stakes gaming rooms past the great unwashed playing slots!
So I took time out from gambling and ended […]