[http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=498932006] Here's a journalist who just writes what he's told by the music industry - Adam Pasick of Reuters : The...
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060845392/645/] I've not had a "Lent book" - a book intended for reading as a spiritual exercise in the days leading...
Just ... can't ... help .... myself ... , , , . Seems working at home can be expensive. Actually (and to fend off a little of the inevitable tut-tutting from...
Mono Lake, California I've been in love with Mono Lake high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California ever since I first saw it from the air many years ago....
width=150 border=1 align="right" hspace=7 vspace=5 />Having caught another track from her in the SXSW Showcase, I finally snapped and bought the Polly Paulusma...
[This was written originally by Francis Stonor Saunders. Frances Stonor Saunders is the former arts editor of The New Statesman, author of The Cultural Cold...
[This was written originally by Francis Stonor Saunders. Frances Stonor Saunders is the former arts editor of The New Statesman, author of The Cultural Cold...
Well, not exactly, but that's the last day to register your concern for Mono Lake , please consider commenting right now. -- Posted by webmink to WebMink at...
Footnote for those travelling to Brazil: Avoid Varig for the time being. They are in administration, and flights are a mess. My São Paulo to Porto Alegre...
On Tim's recommendation I've been listening to the CBC3 Podcast for a while now and today heard Children of the CPU performing Firefly [yes, that link is...
You know I like her music already, of course, but Imogen Heap has a new single on iTMS US. Curiously it's a remix of "Goodnight and Go" but the B-Side is a new...
Is Apache Derby, the SQL database written in Java, the answer to allowing web applications to run offline? David Berlind of ZDNet thinks so, and he's pointing...
It's not just people who steal software who have to worry - when you buy a Microsoft product, you're buying a lifetime of fear of audit and legal persecution....
As of now the OpenDocument specification, which defines the file formats used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and more, is now an international standard, ISO/IEC...
I don't know how much of it is just people being kind, but I've had loads of people look at my photographs and say "you should sell these". So, following my...
Yosemite In case you wonder why went so quiet over the last week, it was becuase I was staffing JavaOne over in San Francisco. It was a busy week and if you...
I've not mentioned music for a while so here's some (all the links are iTunes US), and it's showing my hidden Country side. First up is the new Dixie Chicks...
The ever-useful 3Hive got me to take another look in my music library today when they published links to music by Psapp . I already had their wonderful track...
When I was in the Bay Area last week, I did something I had been intending to do for maybe ten years. Driving along I-280, I had often noticed a brown...
I've had a few people comment that the links in the stream at www.webmink.net are a bit overwhelming so I've suspended the feed from my del.icio.us bookmarks...
The UK remembered 7 July 2005 this week, and in recognition of that I'm offering you a book recommendation. There's an unusual, independent book shop near us,...
On a whim I added a £5 CD by "Abraham" to my most recent Amazon order (getting a copy of The Long Tail , which is excellent by the way). The album is Blue For...
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/10/roaming_regulation_plan/] According to The Register , the European Commission has finally got tired waiting for the...
You will have heard me saying over and over that I have never seen a case of someone sacked just for blogging - there's always a deeper issue and either the...
Just finished Chris Anderson's book "The Long Tail" [ UK | US ] and it was excellent. While I wondered if reading the Wired article would be enough to show me...
Tim O'Reilly highlighted the Blackboard patent dispute yesterday, and has this comment: It's a great example of someone using clear and ordinary language to...
I'm just experimenting with Writely and have uploaded two recent speeches in OpenDocument format to it. You can take a look - there's Freedom to Leave , about...
I see Amazon US has launched Amazon Unbox Video , a video sale and rental system. I'd like to try it, but they don't want my business. Despite the fact I have...
[http://astore.amazon.com/claritysystems] Just to prove I don't completely hate Amazon, I've just set up a new online store page to try their AStore service....
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