I’m coming to the party a bit late, but I’ve finally got round to adding tags to my blog. Hopefully Technorati will do the right thing with them. It’s folksonomitastic.
Category: tech
Windows Firewall
Until this weekend I’d never really seen a PC running Windows that was connected to the internet using a domestic broadband connection. The only Windows PC on my home network is hidden away behind a firewall provided by the ADSL router so no-one out there on the net even knows it exists. This weekend I… Continue reading Windows Firewall
Podcasting – Why Bother?
I was going to summarise a conversation that blech and I had in the pub last night about the pointlessness of most podcasts. But spookily hitherto manages to sum it up better than I could even tho’ he was in California and not part of the conversation (which took place in London).
Nokia 770
The Gnome people were all very excited yesterday about the announcement of the Nokia 770. Called an “internet tablet”, it’s a compact, portable device for accessing the internet over wireless. It looks very nice. The exciting thing for the Gnome people is that all the software for it is based on Linux and Gnome. And… Continue reading Nokia 770
BBC Podcasting
The BBC has increased the range of its podcasting trial. There are now about a dozen programs available. If they added links to the podcasts to the radio player pages then I’d include them in the BBC streams page.
Geeks in Hospital
A geek friend of mine is currently in hospital and looks like he’ll be there for a few weeks. Here’s an article explaining how he got his internet connection working. It all looks a bit Heath Robinson, but the post is evidence that it is working.
User Interface Design
I wanted to buy some tickets to see The Philadelphia Story[1] so I wandered over to the Old Vic web site. There’s a “book online” link there that takes you to the Ticketmaster page for that show. So far, so good. But this is where it all starts to go wrong. The Ticketmaster page is… Continue reading User Interface Design
Backpack API
I’ve been using Backpack for a few days to attempt to organise my life a bit better. It’s a very impressive service and I think I’m getting a bit more organised :) And then this morning I see that they have now released a web services API so that you can access (and change) your… Continue reading Backpack API
Open Source Software Saves You Money
Not that it will come to much of a surprise to anyone who has thought about it for more than a second, but the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has published a report saying that schools could save significant amounts of money by using Open Source software instead of commercial software.
Accessible Odeon Update
Last summer I wrote about Matthew Somerville, his Accessible Odeon project and how Odeon took offense to it and closed him down. I’ve just got an email from Matthew saying that he’s written a Greasemonkey script that cleans up the official Odeon site so that it can be used in Firefox. The script can be… Continue reading Accessible Odeon Update