I’m not alone in thinking that “Windows Vista” is a really bad name. Apart from the obvious ‘Hasta la Vista’ catch phrase which brings images of the Governor of California single-handedly shooting up Redmond.
Hugh Macleod (I love his little sketches) thinks it is bland.
I did a search for other “Vista’s” on Google. Here’s what I [...]

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An article on ITWeb which touched on Digital Rights Management got me going enough to write a nice response.
See my comment here.

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So the news is out, the new version of Windows (aka Longhorn) is to be called “Windows Vista”. See the details here.
Ok, ok, I’m no hero, I was tipped off by Robert Scoble.
Pity they chose an unoriginal name like that. If I were Aperture, I’d think about legal action. See the Aperture website:
“Aperture VISTATM is [...]

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Friday at Sun was definitely a reduced productivity day, but with good reason. The marketing guys were holding an ‘Information Town Hall’ at The Castle in Kyalami and this was followed in the evening with a Kick-Off Dinner at Casalinga Ristorante. I attended the dinner.
Despite the distance we had to travel, about half an hour [...]

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So I skipped on out last night to High Flyers in Boksburg with JP for a beer or two and happened to see the one-man band “Mo” playing there. I have to say he had some pretty impressive guitar work.
His music choise was all over the place, which made it very interesting to watch and [...]

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So yeah, I know I’ve just recently started my new job at Sun Microsystems – as a Sun Java Enterprise System Engineer – and I need to still get into the swing of things, and should not complain much, but damn, can’t they paint the office on the weekend or something? This is ridiculous.
Here [...]

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