Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Open computing
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
In the far off past when I was a professional programmer writing software for money I relied on a variety of tools to fix the inevitable errors in my work. These tools would look at my thousands of lines of code and check that I […]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 22nd through January 28th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between January 22nd and January 28th:
When Green Computing attacks - hype or heaven? - Register debate
Validus taps DC power to save energy in data centers - Back to the future: DC power can save 40% of energy use in data centres, it seems
Journalism’s frayed relationship with advertisers - The […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Freedom to Roam
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
Sometimes it is only when the niggling pain goes away that you realise just how irritating and distracting it had become.
A sore tooth can sit for weeks just beneath the threshold of consciousness before you finally decide to do something about it, and you leave the […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Home is where the hard drive is
[Also on the BBC News website, as usual]
One of the more interesting announcements made at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was that BT Vision, the on-demand TV-over-broadband service, will be available on the Xbox 360 later this year.
It was one of several media-related announcements from Microsoft, including deals with both MGM and […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 17th through January 19th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between January 17th and January 19th:
Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fiction -
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Rewiring the mind - Interesting report on research strategies
Guy Fawkes’ blog - Ten years ago Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky story..
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Seven wise monkeys…
Seven wise monkeys…
Originally uploaded by BillT.
The final panel at today’s Oxford Media Convention.
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Michael Lyons speaking
Michael Lyons speaking
Originally uploaded by BillT.
And also on The Guardian, BBC and Press Association.
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Chairman of BBC Trust opposes top-slicing
I’m at the Oxford Media Convention and Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust, has just given the opening keynote. He looked at Ofcom’s imminent review of public service broadcasting and used the time to try to undermine the suggestions that the Licence Fee should not all go to the BBC - ‘top-slicing’. […]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for January 8th through January 14th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between January 8th and January 14th:
Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush’s Memex - History in context
Clarkson’s ’steal my ID’ stunt backfires | The Register - You could almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Facing the Music
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
The coming year is not going to be a comfortable one for Facebook.
It might just manage to avoid upsetting its users with new services like Beacon, the misjudged advertising feature that told your friends about your purchases.
It might spot fake profiles of famous people, like the […]
