Warmest New Year greetings to you! I was privileged to visit many new and interesting places in 2004 and have made valuable new friends; I am truly grateful. I...
Looking at my page hits, I have had a veritable surge of people looking for the recipe for our Chocolate Martini using search engines. Interestingly, the last...
A gripe of no interest except to Britons. If you live in the UK, you'll be cascaded with catalogues from a company called "House of Bath", full of good-looking...
Not good at all .... well now that its been blogged you just never know what might happen. I had a bad experience with "Simply Computers" and blogged about...
... Seems I'm not the first to have problems - see http://www.grumbletext.co.uk/ vt.php?p=7509&subj=complaints+House+of+Bath+complaint ... I see it's still...
... You think it is bad now? Wait until you see more off-shoring of customer service. I've already changed my buying habits. It isn't a matter of "Buy...
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/07/gov_open_source_dynamic/] I've never seen him at my keynotes so I treat the fact that Robin Bloor in The Register has...
I LOVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE ONE THAT I AM HEARING BANDIED ABOUT JUST NOW IS THAT THE EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI WAS TRIGGERED OFF BY UNDERGROUD TESTING OF A...
... Sounds totally outrageous. I can tell you're excited by it though. My web site has been receiving thousands of hits a day via search engines from people...
[http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/09/companies_that_have_.html] You'll think it strange for me to defend Microsoft , but seeing them on the list Cory has...
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/07/gov_open_source_dynamic/] I've never seen him at my keynotes so I treat the fact that Robin Bloor in The Register has...
Just had to turn comments to "registered only" to stop some scumbag from adding comment spam to old postings. Comments still welcome, but you'll need a Blogger...
[http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/01/11/MiniMac] I don't think I want to get into a trans-Commonwealth "my Mum's better than your Mom" battle with...
[http://cuddletech.com/blog/index.php] Coolest Solaris blog ... so far anyway, from Ben Rockwood of Cuddletech fame (see the OpenSolaris group in my Bloglines...
[http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000404.html] James Governor just redefined the technology analyst business . Go read it, especially if you were...
Not that I would boast about it but: Not that I would encourage you to follow that link of course. [Thanks to ... well, pretty much everyone else] -- Posted by...
Simon, Remind me to start using my home-built Linux box more and get some rotting food to keep in my office while I play MUDs at 3am on a Friday night. I...
I took the quiz, a lot of the questions we just funny and frankly I didn't think I could honestly answer what I suspected were the top nerdy responses. I'm...
What can we learn from the "wars against" that people are currently waging? The first lesson to learn is that the best form of defence is offense. Rather than...
[http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55366] Heise is reporting that the EU Council of Ministers is to take another stab at the Software Patent...
[http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/2005/01/what_i_was_gett.html] AKMA has an excellent essay on change and religion today. He articulates, more eloquently...
[http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink/20050126#solaris_tequila_and_tolerance] Yes, I'm in California. A piece on yesterday's OpenSolaris announcement is...
[http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/01/25/1140225.shtml] Do the editors at Slashdot intend to character-assassinate the OpenSolaris pilot participants one at a...
Just listened to the new single from Bright Eyes (it's a free download on iTunes this week) and it's raw and powerful. -- Posted by Simon to WebMink at...
[http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/chats/20050131#present_candidate_for_java_computing] I have no idea what the text says, but I know I have to have a Dukelele...
[http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000454.html] James Governor unjustly takes Scott McNealy to task in a piece that perpetuates the misunderstanding of...
[http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000454.html] James Governor unjustly takes Scott McNealy to task in a piece that perpetuates the misunderstanding of...