Yes, the local branch of Waitrose (grocery store) here in Southampton had a fine display of easter bunnies and chocolate easter eggs today, January 3rd. And a...
I don't know if any of you subscribe to interesting-people. I just had to pass this one along. I'm am constantly amazed at the amount of press censorship...
Seems Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) has been [via Boing Boing ] risking the random pseudo justice of the airport security screeners . I doubt I would get...
Today sees the launch of an innovative system called FoneBlog from Newbay Software , to combine weblogs and camera-phones to allow people to maintain blogs...
mmmm its not that innovative ... we've had that on Blog-City for a number of weeks now. http://www.blog-city.com/ <http://www.blog-city.com/> We built...
I'd agree with you, Alan - Sean had a prototype of this up & running last year the weekend after we discussed it and it all worked fine. The hard part is...
I'd agree with you, Alan - Sean had a prototype of this up & running last year the weekend after we discussed it and it all worked fine. The hard part is...
As you point out, Alan, the bit people can see is (apparently) easy, and indeed one way of offering the service would be to just charge for data traffic. But...
A couple of observers ( Dave Winer [via Sean] and Alan Williamson in the Yahoo group for this blog) have commented things along the lines of "no, no, don't do...
What dramatic news item could possibly force me out of my post-Christmas lethargy to get on the PC? MSFT being told to ship a real JVM within 120 days? The US...
Oh boy! It's about time. But we still have to wait until June. ... From: Simon Phipps [mailto:mink@...] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:25 PM To:...
... (at 40% discount). ... Who cares about amazon.com, or any other bookseller carrying a bastardized (Simon & Schuster says "Americanized") American edition?...
Stunning search engine pointers over at Boing Boing. Was it the US government that gave Iraq the starter cultures for Anthrax and other biological weapons?...
This reminds me of an interview with serial killer Elmer Wayne Henley: Interviewer: "You make it out that you're the victim of a serial killer, but if you...
I wondered about that for ages too (I was vanity lurking on your site...) & then remembered that Blogger doesn't include entries with no Title element in the...
What it is: Please click and drag one of these links to your links bar or right-click to 'Add to Favourites' (or similar). You may well get a warning that the...
Spot the irony: giant squid attacks yacht in Jules Verne race [via The Long Letter ] ... "Hi mom": realising your partner knows more than you expected [via...
Surprised and delighted to see that IBM is featuring an article on the OpenOffice.org file format that's been contributed towards the standarisation technical...
I receive a lot of spam. Some of the spam I get is nasty stuff, and the excellent POPFile does a great job of spotting most of it and filing it in the bin. For...
Anne just wanted to thank you for the aerospace reporter link...I hadn't seen it, but your heads-up came in time for me to make sure we included it in the news...
Chatting over breakfast, it seemed obvious what is wrong with the RIAA - it's that they are serving their customers! It's just their customers are the media...
Big news from the UBL working group at OASIS . Their work to create a royalty-free data representation standard for electronic commerce has come to fruition...
In the words of the film American Beauty , "there is beauty everywhere". Looking out of the window on my way over here to the US, the sunset was illuminating...
Simon, You're just showing off. To get that photo you must have been in Business or First Class. Ahh, the life of the international playboy. :-) Regards, Dave...
I have also taken to snapping pictures on the plane ... on my last trip there i snapped a really beauty as we flew over Greenland ... you could just see the...