Last week, Novell and Microsoft struck a "patent cooperation deal". It’s quite puzzling.
One thing is the question of Mono, the open .net implementation. If you’re so worried about getting sued by a particular company, why pursue a course of reimplementing a technology that they’ve designed? Secondly, why are Novell so worried about it? As far […]
Candidate: Zero Vote Tally Off by 1
When you design a computer system, it should have checks and balances. It’s why I object to electronic voting machines.*
So, a fault, and a very small constituency has done us all a favour. Randy Wooten, the mayoral candidate for the tiny (pop 80) Waldenburg, Arkansaw received no votes according […]
Interesting stuff in an interview in The Times..
“Most people find it pretty grotesque that a couple of dozen City executives can share a billion pounds of bonuses between them. That’s not where hardworking families and people are at,” he says.
Here come the old left-wing politics of envy. Never mind that it’s private money being spent […]
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/search/display.var.1006563.0.club_we_wont_ignore_indy_bands.php
The Zodiac in Oxford has been bought out by the Academy Group, owners of the Bristol Academy and Birmingham Academy.
The Zodiac’s a great venue, and I hope that the change of hands doesn’t take away some of the character and some of the great bands that get to play there. Living in Swindon, it’s one […]
A friend of mine put me onto a new, and useful site. The site is called veer.com and contains all sorts of useful things for sale. Fonts, Graphics, Illustrations and more.
There’s another site whose graphics I intend to use for my next project - a site called IconBuffet that sells packs of icons for websites.
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Red Ken in Cuba
Mr Livingstone said he wanted to learn more about Cuba’s successful sports programmes ahead of London hosting the Games in 2012.
"Clearly they’re doing something right here about engaging their young people in sport, and that’s what I’m really interested in finding out about."
Here’s the simple answer for you, […]
Web Inventor Fears for the Future
He told the BBC: "If we don’t have the ability to understand the web as it’s now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad.
"Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web.
"Studying these forces and the […]
Is this right? Conservative MEPs vote for the Euro
That’s my next european parliament vote decided, if it is.
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Wat Tyler over at Burning Our Money has a piece about the Defra Farm Payments Fiasco that drew my professional attention:-
She claims the central reason for this whole cock-up was that RPA management were far too optimistic about their ability to deliver, and as problems mounted failed to recognise the light in the tunnel as […]
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