Apologies if I've been ignoring your mail, but after the May Day holiday in the UK (Monday) I will be catching up and replying to those I have neglected. April...
I've been pretty delinquent in posting iTunes Music Store reviews while I have been travelling, but frankly you've not missed much - Apple laid on a pretty...
I've been pretty delinquent in posting iTunes Music Store reviews while I have been travelling, but frankly you've not missed much - Apple laid on a pretty...
Through my window I must say that while I appreciated all the people I met and places I visited in April, I am so pleased to be home for a while. Just looking...
Being a well-behaved web citizen, I install all my updates when I'm told to by the all-knowing Apple. Well, last week they very kindly updated Quicktime on my...
Did you upgrade to Tiger ? I recall that you then need a new QT Pro license as Tiger has a new major release of QT. Not very nice done by Apple/QT though. ...
[http://www.unrealid.com/] According to UnRealID.com , the US will be getting nationally-harmonised identity cards introduced this week as part of a bill...
If you've been following the progress of the "PC Conectado" initiative in Brazil (and if you have, congratulations because the northern hemisphere's press has...
[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4664476] Yes, if you were listening to NPR in the US today, I was indeed on 'Talk of the Nation' in their...
Poppy Heart There's been an unexpected heatwave down here in the south of England and so we spent some time at Exbury, on the south edge of England's newest...
Garden Skyline One of the more unusual conference freebies I've had recently was at OSBC - a copy of Lawrence Lessig's book " Free Culture " [ US | UK | CA ] ....
[http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915] Digit Online news covers the fact that, in their new Pentium D chipset, Intel is quietly adding hardware...
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002LHXBG/645] I was ordering a copy of the new Make Magazine from Amazon UK last week (still not arrived). While I...
Stallman at the European Parliament Thought you'd like to see this shot of the opening of the Greens/EFA Conference on Free Software and Software Patents here...
New Forest Ponies Sometimes it's good to just have a break from everything, and this weekend, in the midst of travel and OpenSolaris and EU software patent...
Moscone West In San Francisco for my 9th JavaOne. If there's a moment in which to do so I'll post news and stuff. -- Posted by webmink to WebMink at 6/27/2005...
OK, so Sun makes it, but I want one of these . Or, indeed, one of these . Either will do, John. -- Posted by webmink to WebMink at 6/27/2005 05:12:00 PM...
I've put off this thought for a few days but it's still at the front of my mind so I have to comment. I went to the JavaOne After Dark party this week and...
I was on the train heading to London at 9:30 today but turned back when I heard about the attacks today. I still can't fathom how anyone can think mass murder...
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711021.stm] As the story unfolds of the fact that the man police shot in London was not a bomber , we discover the story is the...
It's been a long time, but I'm in love with some new music again. If you have a stunning memory (or, alternatively, if you fell in love with it too), you'll...
Sleepy summer If you've been trying to reach me this week you will have received at best an "away" reply from my robot and at worst a distant silence. My wife...
As I have to be in the Bay Area the week after I plan to drive down to San Francisco from Portland starting Friday, so clearly a week driving around England...
[http://www.us.playstation.com/PSP.aspx?id=softwareupdate] The tension mounts as I wait for the firmware update for my PSP that may add the first open...
Simon becomes chief open-source officer... http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,104060,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=104060 Any...
Barry Burd
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Aug 21, 2005 8:11 pm
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I posted about it in-depth on my Sun blog - http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=oso_a_milestone_on_sun This & the more recent two postings all...