Order your Pizza Hut pizzas via your desktop

By Mark O’Neill

All you lazy hungry geeks who can’t be bothered to tear yourselves away from the computer, despair no longer, because Pizza Hut has come to your aid! Yes, the Hut is the latest company to jump on the Adobe AIR bandwagon with their desktop ordering widget!

But as usual with these new-fangled techie things, it seems to be for the United States only so anyone outside the US of A is out of luck and will have to resort to the old fashioned method of ordering a pizza – picking up the telephone and calling.

Gasp. I know. That’s so 20th century!



New Acer “Predator” desktop looks transformer-like

Faster. Deeper. Harder. Further

At least that’s what Acer wants us to beleive when it comes to their brand new gaming rig, the Aspire G7700 Predator. Apart from looking like something right out of a transformers movie, this beast features an overclocking quad-core, Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 8GB of RAM and three… that’s right, three GeForce 9800 GTX graphics cards. For the full specs, be sure to visit the Predator’s home page.

Unfortunately, Pricing and availability have not been announced yet.

[Via TechEblog]

Free Subscription to Website Magazine

After the PC Magazine offer (which is now expired, sorry for those who missed it), we now have another fantastic promotion involving a free subscription to the Website Magazine. I’m not sure how long this one will last, so if you’re running a website, you better hurry and subscribe to it before it expires.

Until now, there has not been a magazine that caters exclusively to the business of running a website. Website Magazine has tapped premier talent in the Internet industry for their content and each and every issue will contain practical advice and insights for website owners.

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Its Mid-2008. The Pentagon Finally Gets Around to Defining CyberSpace

You can only imagine how long this meeting was.  After decades of wrangling, the big brains at the Department of Defense finally got around to defining exactly what is meant by the term “cyberspace.”  This was distributed in an official memorandum at the Pentagon. All I can say is “It’s about time!”

The definition:

I have a copy of the DoD Memorandum here.  It references Presidential directives for Homeland Security and National Security and helpfully clarifies the term for secretaries of the military departments.  And this is why contractors make the big bucks in Washington, DC.

The new web campaign of the day

By Mark O’Neill

I often find it amusing about some of the pointless website campaigns that people start up but this one that I found today is one that I whole-heartedly support. I have a lot of email buddies who send me lots of “forwards” – jokes, pictures, video clips, weblinks and much more. Which is all fine and good but these buddies still haven’t learned the concept of email BCC – Blind Carbon Copy.

All being geeks here, I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how BCC works. But there’s a lot of people out there who still haven’t worked it out yet. I’m sure you know a few people like that too. So when you get a forwarded email, you normally have to scroll past scores of email addresses first which is a spammer’s wet dream. I keep telling my friends that those email addresses should be in the BCC column but do they listen? Nope.

So I think I’ll now be sending them the BCC Please website and asking them to read it. If you know anyone who mass pastes email addresses in plain sight, maybe you should send along the page to them too? Hopefully they might finally get the message!