Archive for February, 2007
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Our friends in the North
When we were up in Scotland recently Max was delighted to meet Merlin at Cybernaut, the excellent cybercafe in Ballater.It was great to meet Kevin, who runs the place – and who proved himself an absolute star when we managed to leave a camera in one of the cafes in the village as he found [...]
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
From pages to pipes
[As ever, this is on the BBC News Website]
When the Web was young we were happy just to see words and pictures on the screen in front of us. All backgrounds were grey, all fonts were Times and anything other than a static image required a ‘helper application’ to be loaded and run, so [...]
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
Apple and DRM
[This caused a bit of a stir when it was published on the BBC website - I was away in Scotland, and offline, so missed most of it... ah well, you can't always be around. And now Cory is saying the same about DRM in Salon.]
For a company with a tiny share of the computer [...]
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Snowball fight
Snowball fight
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Max has a day off school, I’m ‘working at home’….
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Watching Vista
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website, and it was also picked up on Slashdot where the discussion has been extensive... and not entirely supportive!]
The launch of Window Vista last week was accompanied by widespread criticism from advocates of open systems, open networks and the free flow of information.
Particular attention was lavished on [...]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
How to annoy your customers
I have a Barclaycard, and registered for their online service as it’s useful to be able to check statements and such like. When I moved house I forgot to tell them – my post is redirected so I didn’t notice – so today I thought I’d do something about it.
I couldn’t find an obvious way [...]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Let’s Lisp again
Lisp is one of the oldest and best-loved programming languages around, but it gets relatively little attention from programmers despite its flexibility and power. Now the organisers of the 2007 International Lisp Conference hope to raise the language’s profile by inviting entries for their latest programming contest.
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Around the web
Not everything I write goes up here – I’ve recently started writing features and a monthly column for BBC Focus magazineBBC Focus magazine and am also now blogging on the TCS Innovations blog.
