Posts by Phil 57

Shoreditch a hub of 'exciting innovation', says science minister

Tax

> The well-documented love-in between the government and Google showed no sign

> of letting up today. But then, why would it.

Because the UK is Google's second biggest market, and yet they pay sweet-f*ck-all in tax?

Ellison winds up rivals with stack-in-a-box vision

Turds

Sure, you can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

Ten free apps to install on every new PC

Antivirus

I would add Fortinet's FortiClient to the list. It is free (as in beer) and comes with a registry watcher, VPN client, spam and web filtering.. amazing.

Freely downloadable from http://www.fortinet.com/products/endpoint/forticlient.html

Not affiliated with Fortinet but I do love their products.

Lenovo intros ThinkPad X201 series

Beauty

I have the x301 and it is awesome. Solid and reliable, works great with linux. A shame that Lenovo is slave to the Micro$oft tax though..

Antitrust incoming? Google hit by EU complaint, FCC filing

Shock Horror!

..Google uses its monopoly on Search to push its other services!! Film at 11!

Arise, Sir Peter of Middle Earth

Kate Winslet

You are all forgetting PJ's "Heavenly Creatures" which launched Kate Winslet's career.

Also "District 9" was produced by PJ, consequently all the CGI (including every single alien in the movie, except those dead ones on the operating table) was created in Wellington, NZ.

As for the claims of LoTR being rubbish - even if you overlook the amazing technical feat of three movies being shot all at the same time and the pioneering CGI techniques (Gollum, massive) that made George Lucas look like the chump he is, there was still good merit in those movies. What's with all the haters? All your new year cheer dissipated already?