I just thought I’d post a link to an Australian broadband speed test site I found: www.ozspeedtest.com It appears to work very well, and has links to a number of mirrors run by ISPs and web hosts. So, chances are, if your ISP is in the list you can conduct a test without actually adding [...]

thinkStack is back – with more regular posts. To start off, I’m going to be writing a few articles aimed a bit more at the non-technical people. I’ll be writing about The Alternatives. It strikes me how so many people stick with the status quo when it comes to IT, even though in the vast [...]

I’ve decided recently to get into some of those social bookmarking type sites: del.icio.us, digg, Technorati, etc. You can see what I’ve done through my feeds and profile links on my home page. In summary: del.icio.us is pretty cool digg is a bit of a waste of time What does Technorati actually do again? To [...]

Finally – I’ve found a way to force MSN Messenger to open it’s links in Firefox. Even though Firefox is set as my default browser (because I don’t use IE), MSN has been insisting on opening links (such as Hotmail, Spaces, Profiles, etc) in IE. So, if the same thing is happening to you, here’s [...]

Then have a look at web history in the year 2014. Barry Welford pointed it out on Cre8asite this morning. The presentation covers the creation of the Internet in 1989 till when the New York Times is taken offline in 2014. It covers the creation of the Google Grid in 2006, and Google and Amazon’s [...]