Archive for May, 2007
Monday, May 21st, 2007
A future for the Web
On Sunday I gave a talk at Common Europe 2007, a conference for users of IBM’s mid-range System i computers. It was an interesting audience, although I’m not sure what most of them made of my argument against US cultural hegemony online and in favour of an open but regulated Internet. But we have to [...]
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
Panorama to ‘investigate’ wifi
Tonight’s Panorama on BBC1 here in the UK has the fair and balanced title ‘ Wi-Fi: a warning signal’ and is introduced on the BBC website as follows:
Britain is in the grip of a Wi-Fi revolution with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there is concern the technology could carry health risks.
The [...]
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 20th
Here’s what I’ve tagged on May 20th:
Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Here’s a thought. And another one, and another one … - Another nice piece from John
Shifting Mind » Postalicious - Just what I need - post my delicious tags to my blog so I can tag stuff and tell people about it with [...]
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
Being Bill
[You can read this on the BBC News website, as usual.]
There’s a new widget on my blog, and I’m very pleased with it.
A widget is the general term for an item that someone else provides for you to embed in a web page, and my new toy comes from the online calendar service 30boxes.
It shows [...]
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
Open your laptops and begin…
It is exam time in schools around the UK. My son, aged 14, has SATs all week, while my daughter has GCSE papers from next Tuesday onwards. Some of her friends are locked in the art room for their practical exam today and tomorrow, others still have sore thumbs from last week’s textiles practical.
For the [...]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Me and Simon
Me and Simon
Originally uploaded by BillT.
It’s a lovely day in Brighton, Apart from the rain. Having a fun time with SimonA
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
How Microsoft is changing
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website too]
The long-delayed launch of Windows Vista and the associated Office 2007 seems to have been a success, at least financially. In the last quarter Microsoft earned $14.4 billion and the company believes its sales for 2008 will be around $57 billion.
More people were buying Vista – [...]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
09:F9:11:02:9D: 74:E3:5B:D8: 41:56:C5: 63:56:88:C0
Just doing my bit to ensure that this fascinating hexadecimal number remains in general circulation. With the right software it is apparently rather useful…
