Wow - IBM breaks speed records with new version of file system. Pretty stellar performance.

Also via ArsTechnica - Vista doesn't support EFI. Which is what the Intel based Macs use. I thought the Itaniums used EFI too ?

More screenshots of the Office2007 interface. I'm not entirely convinced by the look but I guess it will blend in nicely with the Vista gui. Microsoft tried something similar with its personalised menus and they just seem to drive people insane - OK so if you hide something you never use then it gets rid of clutter which is fine but if you don't know in advance that something is hidden and why then you're going to be annoyed looking for features you know are in there but you can't find.

I have a personal liking for silly pieces of overpriced hardware (ref my Apple fixation). So its interesting and a little sad to see what SGI has planned for the future.

An inside look at how Google does what it does.

Amusing - the CIA was involved in producing the 1955 animated version of George Orwells 'Animal Farm'. Crazy.

I'm back doing disk-imaging - I was looking for a magic boot cd which included drivers for almost everything under the sun but alas I couldn't find it. After trawling the interweb I came up with the Universal TCP/IP Boot Disk which even detected the latest Broadcom gigabit NIC. So two thumbs up :-)

As per Chris' comment Gnome is getting better and better. Take a look at some of the new bells & whistles in version 2.14.