Last night I upgraded this site to the latest version of WordPress 2.2.1. Thank goodness it always seems to go smoothly. To my surprise, even the template (which dates back to WP 1.5) didn’t need modifying (well, not for technical reasons, anyway — I’m considering tweaking it on aesthetic grounds!)
Anyway, here’s a few good links from this week:
How Google Earth Really Works.
You’re used to the Mac/PC adverts… here’s the Parallels adverts, highlighting their virtual PC for Mac “Parallels Desktop” product.
Something I’ve talked about before highlighted again: The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a “ticking time bomb”, the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.
Data longevity is a problem even today, with devices that generate odd formats – like cameras with their RAW setting. I wonder how well that will load in twenty years time. TXT/HTML/PDF documents, JPEG/PNG images.