I was astounded to discover that if something goes wrong while ordering online at www.tesco.com, and you phone up for assistance, the only way for operator to help is to use your username and password to login to your account.  Apparently there is no admin facility that the operative can use, they have to ask you for your username and password.  Of course you can reset your password, but how many people use the same details for more than one site?  Plenty I would venture.  Making this at best a major inconvenience and at worst a very low security standard on...

Following my last post, the perceived Battle between Microsoft and Google hots up!  Google have apparently poached a Kai-Fu Lee, former corporate VP of Microsoft's Natural Interactive Services Division, well known in the areas of speech recognition and artificial intelligence, and also knowledgable on Microsofts search strategy and its business plans regarding the People's Republic of China Story here: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/75010/microsoft-sues-google.html

Now it's just getting silly! http://moon.google.com (P.S. Don't forget to zoom all the way in!)  

Google seems to be on a roll.  First they wowed everyone with http://maps.google.co.uk, now they have http://earth.google.com/ - but they have many more interesting products too, take a look at http://labs.google.com/.  There is great innovation here, enough IMHO to make Microsoft sit up once more. (In fact Google is the one company Steve Ballmer seems just a lttle concerned about in this video here: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=86097).  Moreover MS appear to have speeded up thier Atlas project, perhaps in answer to the success Google has had with their AJAX apps So I was very interested to stumble across these presentation notes fron Sriram Sankar,...