A group of MPs objected to Brian Haw’s protest about the Iraq. He’s been camping in Parliament Square for years. The MPs got so upset that they brought in a law banning all protests around Westminster in order to get rid of him. Except the law was so badly worded that it doesn’t apply to… Continue reading Brian Haw Can Stay
Month: July 2005
Time Computers RIP
It’s obviously a shame when so many (1,500 apparently) people lose their jobs, but Time Computers going into administration is very good news in so many other ways. Time have been well-known for years for selling cheap computers that rarely work and for having the worst customer support network in the industry. They won’t be… Continue reading Time Computers RIP
Service Information
Originally seen on geeklife.co.uk.
Sarah! Jane! Smith!
Ex-Doctor Who companion Sarah Jane Smith will return in the new series of the sci-fi show, it was revealed as the Doctor’s new costume was unveiled. Popular 1970s character Sarah Jane, played by Elisabeth Sladen, will join new Doctor Who actor David Tennant. From the BBC site, so it must be true.
New Perl Books
I noticed that the O’Reilly stand at Opentech on Saturday had a few new Perl books. I think that a couple of these books are particularly important. Over the last few years I’ve heard a lot of people saying that Perl isn’t suitable for large scale programming projects as it doesn’t constrain programmers in the… Continue reading New Perl Books
Tube Holdups
This morning my tube was held up at Bond St for ten minutes and three carriages (including mine) were evacuated. All because someone left their bag behind when they got off the tube. Of course, London Underground’s method of investigating this was for the driver to wander up and carefully look into the bag. I… Continue reading Tube Holdups
Greasemonkey Arms Race
A few random thoughts came together in a vaguely coherent form on the way home from Opentech yesterday. Allow them to share them with you. For years we’re been trying to persuade web designers to move away from nasty “tag soup” HTML and to use clean semantic markup with stylesheets to control the presentation. This… Continue reading Greasemonkey Arms Race
Opentech
Just back from Opentech, so here are a few random notes. I’ll hopefully fill in more details later. I started by listening to Danny O’Brien talking about “Living Live in Public”. Danny discussed his theory of how the geek world has a weird kind of celebrity where you can be incredibly famous to a very… Continue reading Opentech
Tube Disruptions
I’m not sure what to make of this. I’m just throwing it out there as a data point. Everyday we get tube disruptions in London (just look at Stef’s tube map). Some days are better than others. Today was a really bad day. And I’m not talking about this afternoon when incompetent bombers shut down… Continue reading Tube Disruptions
Bad People
The people running Eyeconomy are bad people. They encourage people who have web sites to use bad practices. Take a look of their section on sub-sites. What they so innocuously call “sub-sites” are better known to the rest of the world as “pop-unders” – that is those extra windows that open underneath your existing browser… Continue reading Bad People