This web site, has had quite a long gestation period: two and a half years since Richard – my brother in law – and I agreed to produce it for his architecture practice.
But I’m pleased to say that it is now live. It was produced using Joomla! and it presented a few challenges because [...]
Yes, that is a picture of me – fairly rare, as I much prefer to stand on the other side of the lens. I’m taking a short break from what I’ve been doing for the much of the last week, and what will certainly occupy me for the next couple of weeks at least. To [...]
Research In Motion, the manufacturer of BlackBerrys says: no way, but the French government has banned the use of the BlackBerry by civil servants because their mail gets routed through servers in the USA. Actually, the ban came into effect 18 months ago, but a reminder was issued this week.
In fact, the US government [...]
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We’ve had the Apple TV for a couple of days now – the 160 GB version, which means that everything can be replicated to its hard-disk. So how do we feel it compares to the Roku SoundBridge, given that we bought both devices as music players and don’t need to synchronize the broadcasting of music [...]
Brilliant – A guide to modern programming practices:
Abject-oriented programming is a set of practices for encouraging code reuse and making sure programmers are producing code that can be used in production for a long time. The number of lines of code in the application is a common measure of the importance of the application, and [...]
His latest installation at Glastonbury.
Well, only a few months ago when Apple announced the Apple TV, I really wasn’t convinced it was a good idea. I still think it is under-featured if you want to use it to handle TV programs and films that have not been bought via iTunes, although people have been busy hacking the unit and [...]
The picture of our pond above is a bit blurred. It was pouring with rain and we didn’t want to get wet, so we shot it from upstairs in bad light with a 280 mm lens!
It shows something we have never seen before, ever. The pipe in the middle of our pond is supposed [...]
The BBC reports (my emphasis in the following quote):
There are calls for the European Union to ban the making of cars that can go at more than 101mph (162km/h).
The proposal comes in a report to the European Parliament on EU plans for a law to curb CO2 emissions from cars.
The proposal is from a [...]
Ars Technica reports that a new service is being offered by several major US ISPs to positively flag mail the sender doesn’t wish to be considered to be spam.
Senders of such e-mail will pay (a $399 set-up and vetting fee plus a fraction of a cent per mail) to have a special token added to [...]
