by Tom | Mar 31, 2003 | IT
phpMySubscriptions is almost there in terms of removing my need for the Radio News Aggregator. Basically it parses your subscriptions.opml file on the fly and displays news. One part of what I want, just the (difficult) back end admin and database functionality to...
by Tom | Mar 31, 2003 | Reading
TIME Magazine: Gulf War II looks at how we got to GWII (not GWB). It starts in March 2002.F___ Saddam. We’re taking him out
by Tom | Mar 30, 2003 | Reading
Apparently the US’s key mine-finding dolphinhas gone AWOL. No wonder there are delays all over the place….
by Tom | Mar 30, 2003 | IT
Good summary of things you can do to maximise flow and creativity when managing programmers.
by Tom | Mar 30, 2003 | Personal
So get this: due to medieval law, I still need to have banns read in my local church (which of course I don’t use or visit). The banns must be read on three weekends, and once read only last three months. Without a certificate of banns from my church, the vicar...
by Tom | Mar 30, 2003 | Reading
Long article about one way of thinking about digital identity and the world of means. Interesting stuff.
by Tom | Mar 29, 2003 | Personal
Looks like the BBC owes Ben a nod? The 10 things we didn’t know this time last week seems remarkably close to a regular feature of Longers’ blog.
by Tom | Mar 29, 2003 | Science
Another human ingenuity story: using the temperature difference between the deep and surface ocean (up to 43C) you can create fresh water and power. This will provide a massive boost for smaller islands, and might even make some currently uninhabitable places...
by Tom | Mar 29, 2003 | IT
TV Torrent has the new series of 24, just in case you’ve missed any. NB the way Bit Torrent starts off is misleading: I’m guessing it writes out a 400MB blank file to write bits to as they come off the wire. To the user it looks like it’s actually...
by Tom | Mar 29, 2003 | Reading
Is Tufte suggesting that bad PowerPoint may have played a part in the Shuttle disaster? It sure looks that way. Regardless, its a great summary of what not to do on a PowerPoint slide.
