About technology and men of mystery
Some items that caught my attention in the last couple of weeks:
- The latest version of Windows, the new Vista has been released with a lot of fanfare. Initial reviews suggest that it is a bit of a dampener. The large number of options (for want of a better expression) provided in this version are an overkill says this report. There are 9 ways to shutdown your computer in the new version. A blogger who worked with Microsoft for 8 years before joining Google, recounts how too many cooks spoilt the broth.
- The console war, among Sony's Playstation 3, Ninetendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox has begun. Fans battled to get one for themselves. The counter is ticking. Wii seems to have grabbed the lead over PS 3. Note that Ninetendo has brought more sets to the market than Sony.
- The former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, died under mysterious circumstances on November 23rd after a Plutonium 210 poisoning. He met up with an Italian academic and a football loving Russian spy turned businessman on the 1st of November. He was, as it emerged later, poisoned on the same day. Health authorities at first thought it was a harmless case if indigestion when the former KGB employee reported sick, inspite of his insistance that he had been poisoned. He lost hair and health and eventually on 19th of November, the poisoning theory was accepted. But then, it was too late, and Litvinenko died within a few days. In a letter written days before his death, he blamed Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister squarely for his murder. For a month preceding the poisoning, Litvinenko was investigating the murder of a staunch Putin critic, Anna Politkovskaya, on 8th October 2006. Read about it here and here.
posted by Rajesh @ 11:33 AM
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