About three and a half years ago, I baught my first mac laptop. At the time I was sure I would regret it. I am happy and a little surprised that I can look back and say I don’t regret…
Digital Isolation : the REAL great divide.
I love my iphone, but mostly not for the phone. I love it because it means that wherever I go, I carry my world with me. I have amusements, music, diversion). So, far from being a device to connect me…
Amazing Languages – Broken Promises
Today, a friend linked me to this it is an scheme environment with extensions. It says it wants to be an environment for musicians and graphic artists to use for performance coding. There is an example here which is beautiful,…
SIGINT: Too little, to LATE.
SIGINT is Signal Intellegence. It is the art and science of extracting meaningful information from the fact of communications. Not the contents of communications, but the fact a particular set of communications took place. Historically it has been an important…
Lost in the desert of freedom
In this time of frameworks and development tools, we rarely start from scratch. There is always some prescribed structure in place when we start a new project. But, when there isn’t, we realise how much that structure leads us. I…
Lego Minimalism
At home, in my office, I have 3 lego blocks. Normal size 4×2 full height. A red one and two white. As I think or wait for autotest to spit out its latest derisive commentary on my current coding I…
Microsoft Live Spaces, Metaweblog compliant, almost
Well, it IS microsoft after all. I have spent this morning writing code to use the Metaweblog api access to Microsoft Live Spaces. The problem is, that the api requires a field called BLOG_ID. But, there is no way to…
Sometimes I could cry.
I have been working recently on a project I started about 2 years ago, and which has subsequently been through several sets of hands. The project involves recreating the functionality of a visual basic application as a web app in…
Do you do Anchovies?
I love pizza, and I really love pizza with anchovies. But our local Dominos (along with all of them) does not do Anchovies. So, first time I called I asked if they did them, and found that they did not.…
Stop buzzing, what does it DO?!
Or possibly, I am too dumb. Owe posted the first real article in our ping-pong series here And my initial impression was. Wha? who? huh? ‘Service Contract’, ‘Data Contract’, ‘Message Contract’? It sounds like something you could sell to a…