Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 15th:
Wozniak’s New Goal is Efficient Housing - Steve Wozniak on his energy-efficient housing plans.
Google wins first battle for open wireless spectrum - Claims that Google is going to buy wireless spectrum seem completely off to me - the technicolour beast is using its market power to try [...]
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 14th:
AACS DRM tentacles reach far into operating systems: Page 1 - It is time to stop Hollywood - and the content industry generally - imposing their unworkable technologies on us.
iPlayer Politics: Behind the ISPs vs BBC row | The Register - Good analysis of the video on [...]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 13th:
apophenia: loss of context for me on Facebook - and here we have the issue we all face on social network sites. We know how to manage context and context switching in real life, but online the tools don’t support it.
Internet groups warn BBC over iPlayer plans [...]
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 11th through August 12th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 11th and August 12th:
hackademix.net » United Nations VS SQL Injections - Lovely analysis - and sarcastic comment
Making Light: Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers - Publishers are going to have to find a way around the bookstores - or at least, bookstores like [...]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 10th:
One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old - ed felten does the right thing with the review laptop
Obituary: Tony Wilson - Sad day
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
The Ghosts in the Voting Machines
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
When I started work as a professional programmer, writing in the C programming language, I sometimes wrote very bad code. It worked, but it wasn’t what you’d call ‘industrial strength’, largely because it didn’t do nearly enough checking.
As a result my programs would crash if [...]
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on August 3rd:
Microsoft preps first ad-supported client software pilot - Ad-supported software, delivered over the network…
Bill Thompson on Microsoft’s Open Source Licenses | O’ReillyGMT - Taking my argument a little further on O’Reilly’s EU blog
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for August 1st through August 2nd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between August 1st and August 2nd:
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Columns by PC Magazine - cheap comment from John Dvorak - who knows that if things go wrong he will get credit for seeing it coming, and if it doesn’t nobody will remember this shoddy column,
Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog [...]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 30th through July 31st
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 30th and July 31st:
Copy killers | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Cory disses DRM again, but it’s always entertaining.
Dragons Fandango: World’s Sexiest Writer 2007 - How to market books in the online world. Perhaps….
Shannon’s Thirst - An interesting meditation on the future of libraries (second part) that [...]
