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Category Archives: General
OpenMoko developer hardware
I love the idea of the OpenMoko platform, an open source mobile phone. It uses linux as the operating system built on a fairly open hardware platform. (Some of the drivers are closed source, apparently due to licensing restrictions) You … Continue reading
The phrase ICT
I really hate the abbreviation “ICT”. Somehow every time I hear it I get slightly annoyed with it. Fortunately it looks like other people don’t like it either. 🙂 ICT which stands for Information and Communication Technology is usually the … Continue reading
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“I would argue that the fact that there are 100,000 people in China who are paid to play the boring parts of World of Warcraft is evidence of serious flaws in the game’s design.” Brandon Berg [link] (in the comments) … Continue reading
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Email legal statements in headers
Graham Miln at Dssw has an interesting article talking about adding legally required information to emails using headers instead of using signature blocks. He also talks about a defined microformat for the data. This is interesting to me, because I’m … Continue reading
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WWDC: Windows
It looks like Apple is not moving into any kind of virtualization or emulation of Windows. Although Boot Camp is said to be included, it doesn’t appear that it will work noticably differently to current arrangments (ie. dual boot). This … Continue reading
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WWDC keynote: Games
(Watching WWDC keynote log over at MacRumors.com) (It seems to be a blogging day for me?) Gaming seems to be one of the big things at this year’s WWDC keynote. EA is apparently going to be doing simultaneous releasing of … Continue reading
Openoffice aqua looking good
I just downloaded the new aqua port of OpenOffice a few days ago and it looks good. There are some bits which aren’t finished yet, but it runs quickly, it runs natively and it runs the same as the other … Continue reading
What have I been doing recently?
Well no updates for a bit. Humm? The main things I’ve been working on: 1) SQLEditor. Lots of things are being worked on. The user interface is being rewritten to improve speed and increase flexibility, the data layer is being … Continue reading
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building antlr 2.7.7 on Mac OS X
It appears that antlr on Mac os x doesn’t like the jikes compiler, at least when I tried building antlr it gave lots of weird compile errors like this: Found 2 semantic errors compiling “ANTLRException.java”: While it would be a … Continue reading
Is it plagiarism if you’ve paid someone else to write the paper for you?
I happened to browsing a popular site that allows people to post tasks that others can bid on. The focus tends to be on small to medium sized technical tasks like web page design and small applications. But there are … Continue reading
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Google Talks: Camino
Mike Pinkerton of Google talks about the Mac web browser Camino. It also includes some interesting history of the Mozilla and Gecko projects. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6765603919277760697
Mac GPRS Modem scripts
Ross Barkman’s site has scripts for using mobile phones as modems with Mac OS X. This post is mainly so I remember where it is if I ever need it and don’t have access to my bookmarks. Also the tutorial/setup … Continue reading
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Keynote in Lego!
A site called PodBrix offers customized Apple themed lego sets. You too can have Steve Jobs at a keynote or the famous Apple 1984 advert recreated in Lego. [link] (via reddit)
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Insanely transparent …
You can just see Steve Jobs stroking a white cat and telling engineers to make products “insanely transparent”, can’t you? [link] (It’s actually an article about keyboards, but worth reading anyway)
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New Bujold book
The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold [Amazon] is coming out this week hopefully. (My order’s already in with Amazon) The good news is that there are now some sample chapters up. Bujold of course is better known for the … Continue reading
Cocaine Production
Interesting video that I found via [Magistrate’s Blog] showing cocaine processing in Columbia. The quantity of different (mostly toxic) chemicals going into the product was the most interesting thing, although I was also interested by the running chemistry lesson from … Continue reading
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Weighing electronics at airports?
I was looking at a BBC news article about the recent security alerts at airports when a thought occurred to me. One of the big challenges with electronic items is to ensure that they have not been modified to contain … Continue reading
Britain, America and WW2
The Guardian has an interesting article detailing apparent attempts by the British government to get America to join WW2. These apparently included an astrologer who made dire predictions about Hitler, a fake radio station and a campaign against Nazi groups … Continue reading
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Abolish the “Three Rs”
Why is it that whenever anyone seems to talk about education they always seem to use the phrase “Three Rs”. This particuarly stupid phrase seems to appear in every article about basic education. I think the very stupidity of this … Continue reading
Sony Batteries
It looks like at least 4 million Dell notebook batteries are being recalled, all of which appear to be made by Sony. Worse news though, Sony also supply batteries to other companies thought to include Apple, Lenovo and HP. If … Continue reading