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An interesting discussion is taking place on Engadget between PC and console gamers. Who is better and which platform is superior?

HP exec Rahul Sood mentioned in his blog post that Microsoft pulled the plug on an innovative concept that allowed players on the Xbox 360 to compete with their PC counterparts. Apparently, the mouse-keyboard combination was far superior to the console, so much so that “l33t” gamers on the Xbox were being annihilated by mediocre PC gamers.

Twitter posts are a great way to air a random thought or share a video. However, sometimes a musing is a little over the 140 character limit and you really don’t want to split your posts.

I’ve been having a lot of these “musings” lately, so I decided to jump on the band-wagon and start a micro-blog on Posterous.

Follow my thoughts and rants as “The Moron in a Hurry”!

Today my first article for Make Tech Easier was published.

The feed for my posts is on the left under the tab "Make Tech Easier".

Enjoy!

Sometimes I come across an article or image on the internet that really deserves to be shared.



[TheNextWeb]

I had an epiphany while reading the Straits Times (the biggest broadsheet in Singapore). It wasn’t so much an epiphany as it was a general realisation as to why I stopped reading newspapers and magazines completely. Rather than usability being a factor, I realised that, for the most part, what I had read in a magazine had already been covered by an infinite number of online sources. What is the point of spending money when the same content was available for free and more importantly instantaneously?

Update: Unless NDTV is lying outright, this interview ought to conclusively prove that this is indeed Sachin's official Twitter account.

Sachin Tendulkar, the greatest batsman in the world (pardon the grandiose statement), has just joined Twitter!

And his first official post confirmed his identity:

"Finally the original SRT is on twitter n the first thing I'd like to do is wish my colleagues the best in the windies"

Lifehacker provides a great chart (above) and summary of which maintenance tools are good, which are bad and which are pure snake oil.

UPDATE: Cnet News appears to have interviewed the father of Gray Powell who confirms that his son was "devasted" and that the person who found the phone is a "thief". I guess my conclusions were all wrong :(

I wanted to apologise for my unnecessarily long hiatus. To be perfectly honest there was nothing pressing that I wanted to discuss. There is now.

A few days ago the gadget blog Engadget posted a story claiming that it had pictures of the new iPhone. Many were skeptical and there was an abundance of commentators alleging that the device was a knock of. Indeed this was hardly the first time a gadget blog had posted an exclusive on a “new” product.

The revelation by Engadget was hardly earth shattering; however, it was the next series of events that blew this story straight into Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field.

The next day another tech blog Gizmodo claimed that they had not only seen the device, but actually had it in their possession and would be coming out with a review.

Several parties were apparently offered access to the device, including Engadget. DailyFinance claimed that the editor-in-chief of Engadget, Joshua Topolsky did not believe in "checkbook (sic) journalism" and were not "in the habit of paying for scoops".

Gizmodo's editor-in-chief had no qualms in handing over cash for the device and this is where the story gets interesting. Apparently he paid $5,000 for the privilege.

What follows is the series of posts by Gizmodo.

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Refresh POP accounts

Following on from my last post I found another graphic: