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lovely idea, if somewhat silly, all about the decay of the iceberg in Belfast Lough as metaphor, entitled Thaw...
March 2005 Archives
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A lovely sans serif font which I think is delightful, medium, bold and bold italic are free, the lovely book weights are part of this ITC updated font from Monotype
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Medium, bold, italic and bold italic version of this delightful sans serif
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their real tax plans, or just some ambitions from one of their former key architects of economic policy
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amazing visualisation of the naming of baby names over the past century, still only 2500 gavin's per million, but it has really taken off since the 1990s
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statistical computing and analysis package including graphical output, open source too
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now nearly a hundred additional databases of content, I think this off the web data is really important
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using keys instead of passwords for SSH, much better than 12 character strings
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ssh keys rather than passwords for MacOSX
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future trading game from yahoo, launched at last week's etech
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useful format for taking conference notes, based on Tom Coates' template
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cartoon style instructions for building things, aimed at 5-15 year olds
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geo hackers and remixers conference, should be interesting and a good justification for a trip to San Francisco...
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newly launched website offering a user created guide to how to make things, collaboratively rated and written
Reading around this it seems there is a more away from LAMP. I've noticed a lot of movement towards the ruby on rails framework and lighttpd seems to be attracting attention. Apple choosing BSD as the core of their OS has move it into the limelight too. So with this move towards Ruby on Rails rather than Perl or PHP; BSD rather than Linux and maybe lighttpd rather than apache, MySQL seems to be the constant. So rather than LAMP try LMBR, pronounced limber to coin a new acronym.
So, in a few hours I'll get into a plane to LA, then on to San Diego for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference, where I'm speaking on a couple of papers. The first on PIPs from work, with Tom and Matt. The second on the topic of engaging people with the consultation process with Mark. I'm apprehensive and excited. I get a day tomorrow to adjust to the time difference, so I'm off to San Diego zoo, which is apparently amazing. The rest of the week should be equally wild.
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best combs in the world, it may seem like a trivial thing, but I lost my 5T a few months ago and the high street combs are rubbish. These are lovely and available over the internet...
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art and technology weblog on print technology and images from my sometime editor at Macworld UK
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cross community workshop for those working in adaptive hypermedia, semantic web, human-computer interaction, ontologies, computational linguistics, user modeling and profiling, user adaptive interfaces, digital libraries
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This alcatel adsl router is now discontinued, uk drivers are available on this site
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note this is for the older alcatel V3 version, not the newer Thomson Speedtouch v4
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the Philip K dick novel as film, looks like it might be good, the rumble suit animation is great
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Ruby on Rails on lighttpd on macosx looks really intriguing
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way behind with this one, still worth noting
Life is very full at the minute, hence light entries on here. I'm writing talks for Emerging Technology, two of them. Getting talkeuro ready for launch, see betageek.co.uk for information. I'm also writing the paper for my new conference presentation at XTech in May. All of this is contriving to completely pack my life to the gills, roll on Easter... still etcon will be fun and being able to point at more than a holding page on talkeuro will be a joy, plus there are a couple of other things waiting in the wings.
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good review of what is new and interesting in terms of web development
I'm in the process of changing hosts and adsl provider. I'm sadly moving on from my colo box with friends at sundive networks to a VC II account with TextDrive, which at $399 forever is a bargain. TextDrive are a good host, I've been quietly using them for the talkeuro project, as they offer ticket based support etc. The development environment is supportive and the forums friendly. They are still offering the 400 dollar deal for life, so if 20G of bandwidth and 15 domain names is enough for you, then I'd highly recommend them. Their focus is on quality and on development, they host quite a few open source development projects, like TextPattern, PunBB and Wordpress. They are perfect for what I need now and I think into the future. Other people are cheaper (well on a monthly plan) and some offer more bandwidth, but the support is great with txd.
I've also gone for the 4Meg adsl deal with Bulldog, which will hopefully be a good experience, though some of the feedback on adslguide was not the best. I'm leaving Demon for the first time since I went online at home. I've been with them using the grrr moniker since 1997. Broadband has really encouraged my internet use at home, I was spoiled in 1990 at university with 100baseT ethernet and 155MB ATM networks, so dialup always seemed frustrating. I think that this was part of the reason that I had a web presence from 93-97 then a gap until 2000. I got adsl soon after, my not great visual design skills probably contirbuted too.
However, finally my home connection speed will rival my connection in work, I'll get most of a 4Meg line, rather than a share of the BBC New Media's pipe to the world. Home and work at the same speed and gprs if needsbe on the move or a wifi cafe account, it is possible to be virtually always onine now. Those who are, say 15 now have a different life, mobile connectedness is a real part of their teenage life.
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clearest overview of how to go about it
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the things other than weblog entries that you can get by RSS
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quite accurate for tk, especially the short circuit
