Information Research Weblog

Three weeks in the Italian sunshine has a way of getting across the point that there's more to life than the life of the Web. Thanks to Grahame Gould for keeping things going while I was away.

Now that I'm back, what seems to be hot? Well, there's the news of the new Apple machine, which may or may not be the first 64 bit desktop machine - depending upon when they actually get it out. But do we actually need 64 bits? It's hard to tell whether Apple's star is rising or falling - Adobe has recently announced that the latest versions of its video-editing software will run on Windows XP, but not the Mac.

Politics and the Web seems to be another hot topic, with the '(non-existent) weapons of mass destruction' issue holding the news pages around the world - especially in the UK, where the issue of whether or not Tony Blair misled Parliament looks as though it will continue to run and run. Apparently, the topic recently became number one on Google. Democratic Presidential hopeful Howard Dean also makes the news for his use of the Internet to gain support (people and money) - while Tony Blair still doesn't have an e-mail address! Perhaps his fearful of learning the truth about what people think about him :-)