I’ve now had the Philips X51 for a few days now, so it’s time for an update. It’s a nice little laptop. About the same size as my previous one. Perhaps a bit larger and certainly a bit heavier, but that’s because it doesn’t come with a basestation so the CD/DVD drive is included in… Continue reading New Toys – Laptop
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London Javascript Night
Those nice people at london.pm are once more looking beyond Perl to present an evening of talks about Javascript on May 25th. It’s currently planned to take place at the Fotango offices, but if it’s as popular as last year’s web frameworks night I can see it having a couple of changes of venue. If… Continue reading London Javascript Night
Linux: A European Threat to Our Computers
The scary thing[1] about the Religious Right is the fact that they are so completely mad that it’s impossible to tell their real beliefs from parodies of them. Take this for example. I honestly can’t tell it it’s real or if it’s a really well-done pisstake. Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are… Continue reading Linux: A European Threat to Our Computers
BBC Programme Catalogue
From the Guardian Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of new media and technology, also announced proposals to put the corporation’s entire programme catalogue online for the first time from tomorrow in written archive form, as an “experimental prototype” This is the cool Ruby on Rails project that Matt Biddulph was working on last year. More… Continue reading BBC Programme Catalogue
Nokia N91
I’ve just been phoned by someone at the Nokia Club[1] offering me a chance to test drive a Nokia N91. I get three weeks to try the phone and fill in a questionnaire and then I get to keep the phone. I said yes please. Should arrive in a couple of days. Anyone got any… Continue reading Nokia N91
The Sun Does RSS
I’ve just noticed that The Sun has started providing RSS feeds. So now it’s possible to get even more racist, sexist and homophobic bile delivered direct to your RSS reader. Interesting to read how they try to explain the concept of RSS in words of one syllable for the benefit of their readers. I’l get… Continue reading The Sun Does RSS
Shopping at PC World
I’ve been looking for a new laptop. I’ve had my current one for about five years and it’s looking a bit long in the tooth. It struggles to keep up with the demands of any newish operating system. I’m currently working near the Moorgate branch of PC World so I decided to go in there… Continue reading Shopping at PC World
Filtering Spam
A few months ago I changed the way my email server works. Instead of using POP3 to download the mail and then filtering it on the client side using procmail, I configured the system to filter the mail on the server side so that I could read mail using IMAP. At some point during that… Continue reading Filtering Spam
Balham Blogs
Been I while since I did anything really geeky in my spare time so this weekend (whilst watching the UKTV repeats of last year’s Doctor Who) I went back to a project that I was thinking about a few months ago. I’ve built Balham Blogs. It’s a site that aggregates RSS feeds that have some… Continue reading Balham Blogs
New Job New Firewall New Browser
The new job is working back in an investment bank for the first time for several years. It’s going to take some getting used to. Everything about the technical environment is completely tied down. There’s a very scary firewall between me and the outside world. And my workstation is completely locked down. Currently I can’t… Continue reading New Job New Firewall New Browser