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Twitter: #googlewave #TiGra #electricdreams Now that Google Wave is out of beta and open to all, I’m seeing a lot of comments in the Twitterverse along the lines of ‘So what? What are you supposed to do with it?’ Google has a few ideas of their own, as...
Book Review ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Maarten Balliauw Packt Publishing I set out to learn ASP.NET MVC with this book with some trepidation, as the preview release of ASP.NET 2.0 was already available. My concern was that the book would be out of date....
We use BE Unlimited as our broadband provider of choice. They are faster and cheaper than most of the competition and I’ve been blown away by the quality and helpfulness of their customer service. We live in semi-rural Wales, yet we get 24Mbps downstream...
I’ve written several times on why I think free software is harmful ( Open Source or Microsoft ; The Zen of Free ; Free Software: Good vs. Evil ?). The unfortunate precedent of giving things away for free on the Internet can result in a race to the bottom...
On Monday 21st February, I’m giving a live demo to some local entrepreneurs and academics to show how, for me, Windows Live Writer has revolutionised blogging. Some of the topics I’ll cover and expand upon during the demo are: My Approach to Blogging...
Have you been following this fascinating series on BBC 2? It examines some of the social and cultural repercussions of one of mankind’s greatest achievements – and it’s not all good! Today, I find it quite impossible to imagine life without The Internet...
It never ceases to surprise me when doing software development, how quickly you can get into territory that very few people seem to have explored, making it difficult to troubleshoot problems. I’ve wasted the best part of a day on an SSL problem. I need...
I’ve had a miserable experience with RSS feeds in Outlook. There are feeds (suc as those from teh Stack Overflow Trilogy sites) that I just know should update at least every few minutes, yet Outlook often takes an hour or more to show any changes. Today...
This amazing free report by Imperva presents an analysis of over 32 million compromised user passwords, obtained in the Rockyou.com breach . The report lists the top 20 passwords used, and here they are: Is your password in the list? If so, I’d consider...
Everything You Do is Marketing I see lots of individuals and worse, businesses who project a shoddy half-assed online persona. Businesses should really understand this: everything you do says something about your company . Your online presence is perhaps...
I picked up this video from @SpaceFellowship onTwitter. It shows the entire universe as we know it today, correctly scaled according to the latest scientific knowledge. http://spacefellowship.com/2009/12/18/video-of-the-known-universe/ Share this post...
Yahoo groups have been the home of ASCOM and astronomy support for many years now and there has not been any realistic alternative. However, Yahoo has its problems: advertising, mangled emails and a truly awful search facility. It’s difficult, at best...
For some time I’ve been following the progress of the Stack Overflow Trilogy of web sites ( StackOverflow , ServerFault and SuperUser ). Now, anyone can set up their own site, based on the same engine. The new service is called StackExchange , it’s provided...
Despite what some people may say, women do have a sense of humour. This one is a geek, too! I picked up this profile image on Twitter: Girl, I like your cascading style. Share this post: | | |
This is where I find out who’s reading my blog… I have some Google Wave invitations to give away. If you’d like one, please email me directly, with “Google Wave” in the subject line. I only have a few, so if I don’t...
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