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By John, on June 27th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Richard’s web site
By John, on June 23rd, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Busy, busy
By John, on June 21st, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Is your CrackBerry being tapped?
By John, on June 20th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Apple TV vs. Roku SoundBridge
By John, on June 16th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Abject-Oriented Programming
By John, on June 15th, 2007
His latest installation at Glastonbury.
By John, on June 14th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: On order
By John, on June 9th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Our magic pond
By John, on June 8th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Paying lip-service to curbing pollution?
By John, on June 8th, 2007
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 . . . → Read More: Another attempt to prevent spam
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