http://www.mkjones.co.uk Michael Kimb Jones - Weblog and other nice things... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:08:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally got round to upgrading to WordPress 2.5 in anticipation of my new theme. Been working on it on and off for a couple of weeks now. I figured it was about time I got some practice in or WP360 would never get anywhere fast. Keep a look out for the ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/general/upgrade The Inquirer reported yesterday that Intel have decided that they will 'never' deploy Vista on any of their corporate network. What will hurt Microsoft the most is the answer Intel gave when asked what they will use instead of Vista: The official answer is 'nothing yet', the one where they try ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/technology/vista-gets-knocked-down-beat-up-and-poked-in-the-eye-by-an-old-friend I really wanted to download Firefox 3 yesterday. I waited all day for the update to appear on the website but nothing came so I logged off for the day, went to the pool and then relaxed with Euro 2008 for the evening. Today I noticed that I had this email: Check ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/technology/firefox-3-fail I'm shocked but also appalled that one of my all time favourite video games is being made into a movie/tv mini-series. XIII is an upcoming 2009 TV Mini-series based on the XIII comic book series by Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, revolving around an amnesiac protagonist who seeks to discover ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/games/xiii-the-movie-tv-mini-series-actually If anyone missed C4's 'The Inbetweeners' here is a rather hilarious taste: http://www.mkjones.co.uk/interest/friend More on the trail of the missing Vista marketing. It turns out Microsoft ARE advertising Vista. I've heard a couple of Ads on the radio (TalkSport) over the past week and today I got a TechNet email titled: "Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista?" The email started with an apology: "one ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/software/why-should-you-upgrade-to-windows-vista Since my post yesterday I have turned into a 'Windows 7 PI'. Hunting down decent articles online to try and decipher the intelligence within. In another article over at ars Peter Bright details what he saw from the W7 demo: What was shown at D6 was rather less than hoped. The big ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/technology/more-windows-7-bashing It turns out ars technica published an excellent article on the transitions Microsoft experienced during XP to Vista and Apple when the ditched OS9 for OSX. Titled: From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X it comes off as a quite misleading almost fanboy-esq bitch fest at ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/interest/excellent-article-about-the-microsoftapple-os-battles I'm sick of hearing about Windows 7. I have only been using Vista for a year and already Microsoft have given up on it. This is evident though the lack of any serious marketing. Is Steve Ballmer really ready to turn a $10 billion investment into a replay of Windows ME? I ... http://www.mkjones.co.uk/technology/microsoft-please-stop-it How Guitar Hero Works on the DS I love the guy singing the cheezy rock lines. http://www.mkjones.co.uk/games/guitar-hero-ds-hilarious-promo-video