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Windows Blue is Microsoft’s future low-cost OS with yearly updates
by Matt Wharton on November 29, 2012
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/28/3693368/windows-blue-update-low-cost
Banana cake
by Matt Wharton on June 26, 2012
A fantastic way to use up bananas that have over ripened. The cake is great with a cup of tea or warmed with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
100g/4oz butter, softened
140g/5oz light muscovado sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
75g/3oz chopped hazelnuts (optional but I think they add a nice crunch)
2 ripe bananas
2 tbsp milk
225g/8oz self-raising flour
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas mark 4 (Fan oven 160°C/320°F) and grease and line a 18cm/7″ cake tin.
I did the following in a food processor but you can just mix the ingredients in step by step in a bowl if you don’t have a food processor. Cream the sugar and butter together and then add the eggs. Fold the nuts, bananas and milk into the mixture (you may need to mash the bananas up beforehand if they are not over ripe). Now fold the flour in.
Spoon into the lined cake tin and bake for about an hour until risen. Leave to cool for 10 minutes then turn out, remove the paper and cool.
What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?
by Matt Wharton on January 14, 2012
Fantastic answer to that question by an anonymous contributor at Quora.com
What’s Plan B should Windows 8 fail?
by Matt Wharton on November 23, 2011
Windows 8 Failure Could Set Off Tech Industry Chain Reaction
What’s plan b?
Plan b should be an Office Everywhere initiative
Stanislaw Lem Google doodle
by Matt Wharton on November 23, 2011
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of Polish SF author Stanislaw Lem’s first book Google have produced an amazing interactive animated doodle with art inspired by the drawings of Daniel Mroz used in Lem’s short story collection The Cyberiad.
London cyber-security conference
by Matt Wharton on November 2, 2011
Representatives of 60 nations gathered to discuss how to tackle the rising levels of cyber-crime.
I hope when they discuss cyber-crime that they aren’t focusing on intellectual property because the actual financial cost of copyright infringement as opposed to the trumped up figures given by the media pales in comparison with the real costs of cyber-crime such as fraud and identity theft.
Margot’s room
by Matt Wharton on October 30, 2011
Emily Carroll has yet another beautifully creepy web comic for Halloween. Margot’s room
Last year’s His face all red
A gigantic cross-section of Batman fighting all of his enemies in Wayne manor
by Matt Wharton on October 26, 2011
A gigantic cross-section of Batman fighting all of his enemies in Wayne manor
Catwoman
by Matt Wharton on June 24, 2011
Brilliant recreation of the awesome Adam Hughes picture. She makes a great looking Selina Kyle.
Leonard Nimoy in retirement
by Matt Wharton on May 28, 2011