It could be the sign of things to come but it appears as though Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally made their IM clients interoperable (and they can also work together). From what I can gather thus far, it just means that you can add your friend’s yahoo email to you MSN IM ande vice versa…. Continue reading →

I just experienced another short geek break, not having access to Blackberry’s and phones and minimal access to computers during a 2 week backpacking tour of Eastern Europe, Finland and Sweden. It offers a new perspective from one who is not so obsessed with all things tech, doesn’t spend hours online and relies only partially… Continue reading →

While Australia’s world cup soceroo’s went down to Brazil yesterday (not a bad performance BTW), we enjoyed a win in the 4 legged robotics soccer cup. Congrats to the folks at University of Newcastle on the win, beating out another Aussie team, University of New South Wales, my old alma mater. While the NUBots beat… Continue reading →

Personally I would have done it years ago but it seems Gatesy has announced plans that he is stepping back from his day-to-day responsibilties at Microsoft to pursue his philanthropic ventures worth an estimated $29 billion. Rumour has it that he will be handing over responsiblities to flemo.org although these are just rumours at this… Continue reading →