By John | August 23, 2009
This cool bike is an entry for the 2009 James Dyson Award design competition.
There’s a neat video of the prototype in action on YouTube. The prototype can change it’s configuration while in motion!
By John | August 18, 2009
Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications).
Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if the service [...]
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By John | August 16, 2009
Matt Mullenweg, the father of WordPress (which is what this blog is powered by) has a really nicely designed blog over at ma.tt. But that that’s not what caught my eye today. I was reading his headphone recommendations and came to his remarks on ear phones for travelling. He swears by Logitech’s Ultimate Ears [...]
I have just subscribed to Humyo.de (they also have an address at Humyo.com for english speaking users). Humyo offer an interesting service. You can backup 10GB of your local data to their servers for free, or you can pay €59.50 a year for 100GB of storage and also use a utility that you get as [...]
The newspaper industry has taken a deep breath and decided to jump into the waters, putting their content behind pay-to-read walls on the web.
I think they are going to get badly burnt unless they cooperate closely with each other.
I’ve mentioned before, that we both use mind maps – they are a great way of sorting out ideas for a presentation or sorting out what work needs to be done in a project, before you get as far as producing a project plan.
Recently I have been looking for a tool which would allow [...]
