Following a cue from some magazine while we were on holiday, I have been experimenting with chocolate martinis - not the sweet & synthetic variety that the...
Sorry for the delay, forgot to check the folder these messages go in. No, roaming wasn't an option - I had to open a local account. My global ISP just charges...
The phone is often locked to the network that sold it to you, so tossing it (or finding a shady back-street unlocking parlour) can be the only answer. Plenty...
OK, so the new Blogger has finally enabled comments (requires registration) so I have added them to my template - let's see what happens! -- Posted by Simon...
Southampton has seemed to me for years to be culinary desert, where the only place to get fresh food in pleasant modern surroundings with no smokers was the...
I don't know if I'll make it to 7 Cs today, but I thought it worth pointing out that the previous two postings (including the photo) were made by accessing...
[http://breedster.drunkmenworkhere.org/] OK, I admit it. AKMA was offering eggs and I joined in with Breedster 3 weeks ago. I'm still not entirely sure what it...
In a recent posting, I commented on the different kinds of postings people make to blogs. On our internal blogs at Sun, I stumbled across a good reflection by...
[http://www.mailscanner.biz/] I've just had a very geeky evening indeed, spent with my friend and neighbour Julian Field , author of MailScanner , which is an...
[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/12/brits_shun_mms/] The Register reports that MMS is widely ignored in the UK - although over half of the cellphones in...
[http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/05/its_about_time.shtml] Well, I've said bad things about the trackback mechanism in the past and I'm still not...
... Trackbacks are a great feature, period. :) Seriously, it is a very handy way to reference material. We've had them enabled on Blog-City for quite some...
... ... as long as they are using a tool that supports trackback (Blogger doesn't, neither does BlogEd, and those are the two tools I use right now). The...
... Oh, hi Simon. ;) ... I can decompose this issue into 3 buckets: 1) You're not trying to market, but to have a real exploratory conversation. Or at least...
... not sure what you mean here ... but trackback is *woefully* simple to implement. There is no magic to it, and a simple HTTP POST/GET will do the trick....
... _____ Simon Phipps Tel: +44 23 8067 7916, Web: www.webmink.net ... The key word here is "implement" - I am not an "implementor" any more, having been...
... you are absolutely right; as a user (and a deskilled corporate dude!) you shouldn't need to worry about the logistics of it. It should be part of your...
[http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/14/2110210] Newsforge is covering a press release calling for a protest in Brussels on Monday. I was sent a...
[http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040524fa_fact] Quick pointer to an article in the New Yorker today which seems crucially informative on the (t)reasons...
Laudably, Six Apart have updated the terms of their license and deftly addressed the biggest problems (to do with personal use). A key indicator to the source...
Mark Pilgrim has been revisiting what might be called the 'Stallmanite' wing of software philosophy , the part where programmers are always able to manipulate...
[http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/] The XML Summer School in Oxford the last week in July looks stunning - what an array of great teachers (and the odd wild-card...
[http://www.webmink.net/2004/05/chocolate-martini.htm] It's been another chocolate martini sort of evening, with good friends and fine chocolate. Tonight's...
From the perspective of speaking engagements the last few months have been pretty quiet (jinxed by EclipseCon perhaps?) but things are starting to warm up at...
[http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?q=ST16G0QTFlWEnz8] Just got the notice announcing the webcast for Sun's next round of new products. As you'd expect following...
Two hot topics on the web this week - Six Apart and their handling of their community as they move from free to fee, and the truth about the conspiracy by...
[http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/] From Eric Idle : "Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge… It’s a...
[http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/05/20.html#a7497] In his posting about The Real RSS Debates Robert makes a few useful comments to move discussion of...
I've really enjoyed using my iSight camera with iChat AV but at my desk the lighting is such that I always look like an extra in a horror movie. Griffin's...
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