Who listens to Alan Jones?. There is a widespread belief that Alan Jones can decide elections. Drawing on demographic and attitudinal data from an extensive survey by Roy Morgan Research, Clive Hamilton shows that perceptions of Jones
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Microsoft Fixes Office 2008 Bugs, Announces VBA Return. Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit last week released Microsoft Office 2008 Service Pack 1, fixing numerous bugs and improving security and performance in the process of bringing the Office applications to version 12.1.0. Microsoft also announced that Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) would be returning to the next major release of Office for…
Google opens up 200 years of news. Search engine Google launches a service that allows users to search and browse over two centuries of news. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] [Bill: Online and E-Learning]
The 16-year rewrite. In February 1992, I started work a piece of Frontier called the scheduler. It's the equivalent of what they call "cron" in Unix-Land. You can put scripts in four different places: 1. everyMinute scripts, 2. hourly scripts, 3. overnight scripts and 4. threads. It was a simple bit of code that's been running now for 16 years,…
In a Letter to His Kids, Wired's Founding Editor Recalls the Dawn of the Digital Revolution. Dear Orson and Zoe, Fifteen years ago, when your mom and I started Wired, you weren't even born. And now look at you — you guys were playing Go Fish with the original crew at the magazine's 15th anniversary party. Back in 1993, we…
News Roundup - Animated 3D, EmerGeo, Altered Oceans, Virtual Airlines. Some more examples of using the new GE 4 time feature with 3D models were posted a week ago at the Google Earth Community. The time animation feature is used to create 3D animations in this case. The first one shows how a Russian Soyuz rocket is set up on…
Does Your Network Have a Public IP Address?. I pose the question in the headline based on early feedback of readers of my new book, Take Control of Back to My Mac, which covers using Apple's Leopard plus .Mac (soon MobileMe) service for remotely accessing files and remotely controlling the screen of Macs you manage or own. The trouble with…