New Forest Deer At last, the forest-next-door has become Britain's newest National Park . The New Forest is a subtly sublime place, full of gentle wonders on...
OK, I think I qualify as a mindless geek. I just have to have my own Robotic Fly Trap , not least because every time I have ever tried to grow the plant...
[http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5596500.html?tag=nl.e589] Personally I think it's great news that the spurious patent ruling in favour of Eolas has been...
[http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050301.065051&time=07%2056%20PST&year=2005&public=0] I see that my friend and inspiration Richard...
I keep seeing people raving (in various ways ) about the new O'Reilly hardware hacking magazine 'Make' but I couldn't see a way to get it over here in the UK....
Looks like the iTunes Music Store has decided that free tracks are a Good Thing. Today there were not one , not two , not three but FOUR of them available on...
[http://www.papercasting.net/] Now that we have all become media superstars because of glorious, simple Podcasting, it's time to find a way for us to become...
Tim Bray has just completed his first year at Sun (Already? - Ed.) and seems happy to be around, despite having joined the ranks of the corporate share-holding...
Pardon me for not applauding, but why didn't Sun contribute to BSF rather than re-invent the wheel? Is it just because BSF originated from IBM? We don't need...
... I don't follow. Isn't this comparing apples with amphibious landing craft? BSF is a developer library. Netbeans is an IDE. Where is the re-invention? Sean...
_____ Simon Phipps Tel: +44 23 8067 7916, Web: www.webmink.netOn Mar 16, 2005, at 17:28, ... I must say I agree with Sean. Coyote adds scripting support to the...
_____ Simon Phipps Tel: +44 23 8067 7916, Web: www.webmink.netOn Mar 16, 2005, at 17:13, ... On the contrary, Coyote shows that Sun is well able to embrace and...
Sean McGrath wrote; ... I'm not talking about NetBeans. I agree with Simon that the existence of redundant IDE platforms is another issue best left out of...
Sean, If you are saying that Coyote is just a script perspective with syntax editor, etc., that's one thing. No overlaps. However, insofar as Coyote can RUN...
... I see what you are saying but I don't agree with it. BSF is very useful, especially server side in JSPs etc. but it is not a panacea. With Jython for...
Sean, ... OK, let's start over. :-) I'm very encouraged to see Sun supporting scripting. It is brilliant to see support for it in NetBeans. But that is just...
Great free track on iTunes US this week - a singer called Polly Paulusma with a gentle song called She moves in mysterious ways . The other two free tracks are...
I just spent a happy day playing with Dave's Planet Roller tool in its stand-alone form to build a new home page built from all my various syndication feeds....
If you follow my del.icio.us links you'll probably have read the Gadget Lounge article reporting how the music industry blames broadband for falling revenues....
Looking through the syndication feed of my Google vanity search last week I noticed that there's another 'Simon Phipps' making the headlines right now. He's...
[http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senuti/] Seeing as I've started dealing out Minky awards, I may as well slap one on Senuti , which is a delicious and...
[http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page] I like mind maps as a tool for collecting my thoughts for writing and presentations, but I can't...
[http://homepage.mac.com/packetrat/plog.html#March242005am] Well, technology evolves and the bleeding-edge internet experimentation over at the Papercasting...
[http://clarklane.blogspot.com/2005/03/happy-trails.html] This may seem an odd posting, but I want to just give credit to the best PR agency I have had the...
Quite Hard, Actually Not that anyone in the US will notice or care, but there will be an election in the UK some time soon and the campaigns are just getting...
A low yield for me with the free tracks this Tuesday on iTMS but you may well be in for a real treat. On iTunes US there's a sweet-voiced but otherwise rocky...