Today various news agencies are reporting that Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is wanted in connection to rape allegations. Coincidence? Well, maybe. People have been pretty quick to come up with various conspiracy theories; the ones I’m seeing in my usual … Continue reading
Earlier, in a rather dramatic post, Wired declared that “The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet“. Which is a pretty amusing bandwagon for them to be on in the first place. It would be fun to rip the article itself … Continue reading
As I blogged about a few days ago I’ve fallen out with my web host. This tends to happen every few years; the standard of “cheap but reliable” hosting has taken a dive. Especially in the area of customer service … Continue reading
I am very impressed with Bank Simple (a neat project I came across via HN). Banking startups are an interesting (and hard) area so, in the spirit of “why not”, I left them my email a few months back. As a … Continue reading
When people ask me (admittedly not very often) what sort of house I want in the future I usually say “a low impact, grass roof eco-home“. This follow up is usually something along the lines of: “huh, no way you … Continue reading
You may remember a short while ago Twitter had some downtime; connections seemed to drift into the ether and time out after a number of seconds (or even minutes). Even the API was affected, and as a result so was … Continue reading
So piracy is back in the news this week with the US government’s proposed “Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft“. Cue the typical hand waving and ranting from both sides of the orchard. I always hate times like this … Continue reading
Writing a CV often seems a pretty easy task to most (or, worse, a fairly unimportant one). The sad fact is that a lot of people are just god-awful at it. Here’s how to write a really killer CV (tldr: … Continue reading
Technology is amazing; you can now converse with someone the other side of the globe effectively instantly via IM and email. The question is: is this a good thing? Clearly in a lot of cases it is. But what about … Continue reading
Draw Mohammed day is this silly idea someone came up with in an attempt to show unity against extremists who threaten death to those who, well, draw Mohammed. (for background; Muslims often find it offensive when people draw Mohammed because … Continue reading
