OUYA see's a good start to 2013

Ouya, the Kick Starter gameing console project, built on the open source O/S, Android, has had a healthy start to 2013, with 1200 units being shipped to developers and others in the pre-order circles.
 TechCrunch  has an article and 'unboxing video' on the shipment.
At this stage it seems estimates on costs of the gaming console are at around the US$100 mark.
To keep up with the projects latest's happenings, keep an eye on OUYA.TV.

Fairwell to the first lady to the stars

Fairwell Sally Ride. Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Challenger flight STS-7. First lady in space and founder of Sally Ride Science.

3 Mozilla updates

Mozilla has posted updates to Firefox, Thunderbird & Seamonkey.

Oracle's release of a Critical update

Oracle has posted a Criticle update to patch some 87 soft spots, found in it's various Sun & Oracle products.

Most are in it's enterprise libary of products, & more detail can be found at Oracle

Barnawartha to get BP Service Centre

Looks like there are plans for a BP service centre at Barnawartha in Victoria's north.
The 24hr site is to be part of Barney's Logic Centre, & accomadate around 45 trucks.

It would be funny if it wasn't real

A humourous start to the week.
But is it really funny??

FBI's MegaUpload raid, excessive & ILLEGAL!!!

  The USA's attempt to extradite MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom has taken a wallop.
   A New Zealand High Court has ruled a raid by the New Zealand Police & US FBI, as illegal.
   Justice Helen Winkelmann, also declared that the search warrant parameters were too broad & that authorities exceeded their powers.
More from news.com.

Internet Explorer security hole

It seems that there is what they call a XML memory corruption vulnerability that is currently being used by the bad guys to get into users machines using Internet Explorer. At the moment there is no fix, but Microsoft has a work around at the link below. Security experts are suggesting to use it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2719615

Microsoft in doghouse for making privacy a Default

Microsoft decision to make DNT (Do Not Track) turned on by default has hit a wall of resistance.
Some not happy, some fear it may make some not respect it at all. My thoughts and a couple of questions.