I’ve been interviewed by O’Reilly UK for their new blog Scenius. Apparently, I’m the Techie’s Techie. Which is nice.
Category: tech
Many Days Later
The perils of downloading the new version of Fedora on the day that it is released! Anyway, the release notes are online. What are you waiting for? Go get it. Update: It actually took about 18 hours. So I’ll be able to start playing with it on Sunday once the Perl Teach-In is over.
Hack Day
So it seems I am cool enough to be invited to Hack Day. Looks like there’s an unofficial wiki for people to attempt to organise themselves before the day. There’s also some rather scary-looking small print to read. All we need to know now is – who is the mystery musical guest playing at the… Continue reading Hack Day
Hack Day
Hack day sounds fun. Two days of hacking and socialising at Alexandra Palace. All the cool kids[1] are going to be there. Are you? The language on the official site is a bit “legal”. Tom Coates explains in English. [1] Places are limited. I hope I’m cool enough :-)
The Futility of Screen-Scraping
Martin’s article today about the Daily Express web site reminded me that it’s been some months since I looked at my list of Newspaper RSS feeds. As the list is created by screen-scraping the individual papers’ web sites, it’s no surprise that it all goes out of date as the sites are redesigned and updated.… Continue reading The Futility of Screen-Scraping
New Phone
Motorola KRZR After twelve years with Orange, I’ve finally had enough and switched my phone provider. Yesterday my mobile number was ported to O2. Of course, a new phone provider means a new contract. And a new contract means a new phone. What I really wanted was a Nokia N95, but on the contract I’ve… Continue reading New Phone
Broken Apple Updates
I haven’t ranted about Apple here for some months, but the time is ripe. In February I ran a software update on my Mac Book and it downloaded and installed a lot of software. Included in that was Apple Airport Extreme Update 2007-001. After installing this update the Mac Book could no longer connect to… Continue reading Broken Apple Updates
Selling Domains
I’ve been dabbling in web sites for some time now and over the years I’ve had my fair share of projects that either never got started or started well but eventually withered and died[1]. Most of these projects had an associated domain name. Previously, once I’ve decided that a project is moribund, I’ve just let… Continue reading Selling Domains
Linux on Dell
Dell are looking at increasing their support for Linux running on their hardware. As part of this initiative they have set up a survey where you can tell them what areas you would like them to concentrate on and which distribution of Linux you would rather see preinstalled on your next Dell. So if you… Continue reading Linux on Dell
Mobile Phones
(via ChrisH on Vox) Charlie Brooker speaks much truth on the subject of mobile phones. He’s talking about a Samsung E900, but I think the same thing applies to most phones I’ve seen in the last couple of years. The menu system is a confusing mangle of branching dead ends. It has touch-sensitive buttons that… Continue reading Mobile Phones