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Thursday, 9 July 2009

ChromeOS, The Mouth And The Trousers

There's an old Northern English saying "All mouth and trousers". Which means "Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance."

So The Guge have announced ChromeOS and they keep yacking on about the "operating system". Spin! It's not an operating system. It's Yet Another Linux Distro (YALD). Linux is an operating system. A distro is a collection of packages making a platform on which you can do stuff. BTW: Android is also YALD.

They say it's a "lightweight operating system". They mean it's a lightweight distro. As if there is notenough of those…

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Thursday, 9 July 2009

Be Happy: Dance

Where the hell is matt

A few things in this World make you feel good to know they exist. One of those things (for me) is "Where The Hell Is Matt?" Matt (pictured above) travels the World and films himself doing a silly dance. It never fails to bring a smile to my face. Scroll down and have a look at the latest video (YouTube). Feel better now?

Here's the same thing on Youku

While we're talking about dance: the pic below is from the always excellent Big Picture from the Boston Globe. The Big Picture regulary finds the best images on a…

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