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Archive for August 15th, 2005

I’ve just upgraded the memory on my iMac from 512Mb to 1Gb. and it was amazingly easy.

Just undo three screws that hold the back of the iMac on, remove the back, pop out the old memory stick, pop in the new sticks, replace the back, do up the three screws, cross your fingers and switch on. It works.

Having built many PCs and seen teh insides of even more over the years the insides of the iMac are a work of art in comparison. No wires, none of those awful flat HDD cables – all very elegant.

Tiger works OK with 512Mb but with 1Gb it feels much smoother.

NTT are releasing a 3D web browser that looks a little (just a little) like how I imagined cyberspace to look when reading Neuromancer by William Gibson although my cyberspace was much darker and a little more Tronlike.

Neuromancer is one of my top books of all time. It blew me away when I read it and that was when I was firmly a ‘cyberpunk’ as a collegue of the time called me. When it was released in 1984 it must have been even more awesome – William Gibson invented the term cyberspace in Neuromancer.

I loved the idea of visually moving through a virtual world representing cyberspace; where sites where portrayed as physical objects that you could interact with or attack.

If you haven’t read Neuromancer put your mouse down now and go and do so.