Monday, March 23rd, 2009
So say we all!
[This should be up on the BBC News website soon]
There is a famous and hilarious episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, the BBC sitcom from the 1970’s, in which our eponymous Geordies, Bob and Terry, spend an anxious day trying to avoid hearing the result of a crucial football match because they will [...]
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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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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
Web curbs for Olympic journalists – What a surprise…
Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown – Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… – nasty little piece of [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future – ReadWriteWeb – If it delivers what it promises this will be vey good indeed
Machinima at the Cambridge Film Festival – Matt Kelland on our plans for Machinima in Cambridge this autumn
Opera companies | Music for the masses | Economist.com [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 1st through July 4th
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 1st and July 4th:
2gether no more | DavePress – I?m absolutely convinced that for events, conferences or whatever, doing fun stuff is more important that sitting and listening to people on stages.
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom | Threat Level from Wired.com – [...]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 16th through June 23rd
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 16th and June 23rd:
Civil Service: Participation online guidance – Excellent advice for all of us who venture online, not just civil servants.
E-piphanies – Machinations – The Trojan Social Open-Source Drop-Down – Nice article outlining some of the dangers that come from widgets/clouds
Schneier on Security: Underhanded Implementation of [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Storm warning for cloud computing: more like a miasma
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and Nick Carr has an excellent piece on 'miasma computing' that moves the argument on nicely.]
My friend Simon is one of those net entrepreneurs with the attention to detail it takes to have an idea and turn it into an effective company. He’s [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
A cloudy look ahead..
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
If you’re ever asked to forecast the way computing will develop, offer to look three to five years ahead. It’s a good, safe time frame because if you’re right then people may just remember your prediction when you remind them how clever you are, [...]
