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Thursday, August 21st, 2008I’m the proud owner of a new Nokia N95 8GB as an upgrade from 3. I wasn’t actually due for an upgrade, but received a letter from 3 telling me that they were changing the way they bill; specifically, they are now rounding up calls which last less than a minute to a whole minute [...]
Wait till you’re older
Friday, August 1st, 2008Labour’s National Policy Forum voted this week to include a policy of votes for 16-year-olds in the manifesto at the next election. On the one hand, I would have loved to have voted in the local elections this year, but am 17. This was unfair and illogical in many ways. I suspect I was far [...]
Freakonomics review
Thursday, July 31st, 2008I’ve just read Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, and thought I’d write a review (in general I’m intending to review more things on this blog). That I read it at all is an achievement – not on my part, but on the authors’. I am ashamed to admit that it is [...]
Mainstream media’s going nowhere
Sunday, January 27th, 2008An idea which persists despite my deep irritation at it is that somehow the world of new media, meaning the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook – whatever the startup du jour happens to be, will replace traditional media. Just as town criers (did they exist anywhere apart from the UK) were rendered useless by newspapers, the newspaper [...]
Alan Johnston
Saturday, July 7th, 2007It’s difficult to express just how pleased I feel that I can remove the ‘Free Alan Johnston’ badge from the sidebar. It’s absolutely fantastic that he has been freed, not only because of him but because of the symbol he has become for journalistic freedom and mission. It’s good for the middle east as well. [...]
Dear oh dear
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007The new launch of Zooomr has been a shambles, and the final product isn’t even that interesting. It is far too buggy to have been released and it adds little in the way of innovation. I was going to write a review of Mark III when it was released on GizBuzz, but I don’t think [...]
Tumblr is awesome
Saturday, April 28th, 2007I’m loving Tumblr – its a really simple blog platform that you can plugin your various feeds to, creating a nice combination of a lifestream and a personal blog. It is a study in usability – truly outstanding. It has just enough features to create a brilliant product, but not too many to make the [...]
Teamwork?
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007A geek’s definition of teamwork that I just read on a Crunchboard listing: “* Works well alone and with a team, including experience with a change control system such as SVN or CVS”. I’m sure they don’t mean it to sound like they believe that a good team player is a person who can use [...]
Measuring not grouching
Monday, April 23rd, 2007I’ve been moaning about Dreamhost’s uptime recently, threatening to switch. The problem is that no-one else that I’ve ever heard of seems to have anything that’s quite right, apart from Media Temple, which is double the price. So, in an effort to be able to stay with DH, I’m measuring uptime this month using Pingdom’s [...]
Hosting
Sunday, April 8th, 2007I’m not happy with Dreamhost at all. There was at least an hour’s downtime (quite possibly more) across all my sites (and all DH’s sites), affecting not only personal sites like this one, but the whole of the Oratos Network, and Klaxis. My Dreamhost account expires in August, and I’ve decided not to renew it [...]
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