White Camel

In 1999 the Perl Mongers organisation started the White Camel awards. These awards are intended to recognised individuals who have made important non-technical contributions to the Perl community. A few years ago Perl Mongers was absorbed by The Perl Foundation and TPF have continued the awards. The awards are traditionally announced at the Open Source… Continue reading White Camel

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Preparing for Emergencies

Our ever-helpful government have produced a leaflet called Preparing for Emergencies full of “useful” advice about how to prepare for terrorist attacks. A copy will be sent to every household in the UK, but there’s a web site for those of us who can’t wait. The government web site shouldn’t be confused with this site… Continue reading Preparing for Emergencies

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Green Spaces

A nice article from today’s Guardian about how Wandsworth Borough Council is “sanitising” a number of its green spaces – including the two commons within walking distance of my house. A year ago you could stand in the middle of Wandsworth Common, south London, and imagine, without too much effort, that you were in the… Continue reading Green Spaces

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IE Blog

The Internet Explorer development team have set up an official blog where you can track (and, more importantly, comment on) their progress towards the next version of IE. There’s an RSS feed and I’ve added that feed to Live Journal. The comments in the blog already demostrate how brave they are to do this :)

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Time Computers / The Computer Shop Scam

The Computer Shop (formerly Time Computers) have never had a great reputation amongst techincal people in the UK. They might be cheap, but their build quality is shoddy and their support is appalling. Now Yoz Grahame points out another reason for not using them. Apparently their systems come with a modem that is configured to… Continue reading Time Computers / The Computer Shop Scam

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Pagans

Last night I watched the first episode of a new Channel 4 series about Pagans. Whilst it was dumbed down in the way that all documentaries seem to be these days (for example, the first episode went for the biggest possible audience by covering sex) it was all very interesting. What comes out of it… Continue reading Pagans

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