Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Cloud City
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
When I’m asked to give a talk about technology I like to pull out my iPod Touch, wave it at the crowd and point out that ‘in the future’ it will be a supercomputer with parallel processors and terabytes of storage.
Well, it seems the future [...]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Posting from my ipod touch
Just installed the wordpress app…
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
End of the Internet: Pictures at Eleven?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
We journalists like nothing more than a forthcoming apocalypse, especially when it involves something that most people don’t properly understand. It’s easy to frighten people with talk of ‘superbugs’ or argue that when the Large Hadron Collider is turned on it will create ‘strangelets’ that [...]
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Fools rush in…
The House of Commons Culture Media and Sport Select Committee recently issued a call for more regulation of online content, and I wrote about it for Index on Censorship
It would be nice to think that the latest call to ‘do something’ about online content from the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee was grounded in [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Fun in Spain
Benalmadena
Originally uploaded by BillT.
On the last day in Benalmadena Max and I took the cable car up the mountain- where they have a falconry centre. A great display, including a Golden Eagle. And a friendly Harrier Hawk…
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Olympic Gold
I don’t really care about the Olympics, but thought I’d have a look to see how well the broadcasters were doing with their online coverage. Having spotted this interesting comment on news.com I followed the link, installed the latest Silverlight, restarted my browser and…
So good to see the IOC understands the global importance of sport… [...]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Core Problem for Apple
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website. And it was picked up on the MSDN Developer blog]
The computer manufacturer formerly known as ‘Apple Computer’ changed its name to Apple Inc. eighteen months ago, reflecting the growing importance to its profitability of consumer gadgets like iPods, shiny toys like iPhones and of [...]
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Excellent image of Capena
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Originally uploaded by Edgar Benedetto Laudito.
Just back from two weeks in the remarkably lovely town of Capena, north of Rome, and found this great faux image of the fountain at the end of Via Capena.
