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Heathrow airport will begin trial testing of luggage-tracking using RFID tags. In the next 6 months they will tag over 50,000 bags per month for travellers using Emirates Airline between Heathrow and Dubai. The clear advantage of course is that RFID tags are not succeptible to the poor scanning quality of barcode and the issues […]

His name is Rexus Maximus III, but you can call him “Rex”. He’s a “Puggle” which is a mix between a Pug and Beagle and he’s quite possibly the cutest freakin’ thing on this planet. Apologies for the out-of-focus shot, Rex was quite excited to meet Emalee and didn’t really think a photo shoot was […]

Boxes and Arrows has a great article on the origins of the term Web 2.0 and how it defines a medium and culture in modern technology.
But what attracts users to donate their time and energy to contribute to Web services like Wikipedia or Flickr while not doing so to corporate services? Psychology and economics teach […]

As a computer technician I do a lot of tasks that by now are considered common occurrences to me, but I think perhaps others would find such tutorials extremely useful. This is the first of hopefully a handful of such tutorials on things that I do daily, little tips, tricks, and helpful programs, that make […]

Kottke has mentioned that Netflix will be discontinuing their HDDVD disks in favor of Bluray as the preferred format. This deals yet another blow to HDDVD who has lost many studio deals to Bluray and seen multiple large corporations (including BestBuy and Dell) choose Bluray support over HDDVD. But you may be hearing this and […]