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It’s Monday, it’s 10am …
…time for The Broadmoor Siren! My nearest siren is about 8 miles away, and on a dampish day you can still hear the weird symphony of them all together. For those of us inclined to think in terms of security theatre, I suspect it qualifies: The siren was installed following a public outcry at the…
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London Google Open Source Jam
If you are in the London catchment area and are an Open Source geek, keep an eye on The Google London Open Source Jam page – I would link to an umbrella page on the Wiki, but onesuch does not seem to exist (?) although there are links for previous events they’ve done. This month…
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APPLE may sell notebook computers without hard disks
I had dinner with Geoff tonight, and he mentioned this, of which I had not heard before: australianit APPLE may sell notebook computers without hard disks later this year, an analyst said. The devices would use the same type of fast memory as music players and digital cameras, driving down prices of hard-disk drives. The…
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On Retreiving Readership Statistics From RSS Feed Data
Several people have asked me recently how it is that they can extract useful “readership statistics” for content which they are making available via RSS, ATOM and the like. It’s a thorny question – there are many challenges, dead-ends and false-starts, and I don’t want to take up too much time analysing what not to…
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For Your Consideration: Blindside
A couple of weeks ago I was honoured to be invited to the Blindside “barn raising” by William Heath, the director. To quote the “about page”:- What’s going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? There are experts, but there’s no one expert. We’re all in this together, so let’s share our evidence and insights…
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The Top reasons you need a PR Firm
These are becoming more and more relevant to me… ravinglunacy The Top Reasons you need a PR Firm […] You treat your customers like shit. PR will be happy to help you. They can craft the “your customers are morons” message much better than you can. They can help select the best Consumer Friendly shade…
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The Multi-Headed Beast of Web2.0 Adoption
I recently was forced to describe Web2.0 as a “Multi-Headed Beast”, and as the numbers of heads went up from Cerberus to Hydra proportions, I thought I’d whimsically arrange them into a spectrum of Web2.0 adoption, beginning with the ignorably trivial and working through towards the more larger goals of Web2.0; the result led to…
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XenSource Denies Trademark Ruckus, Cites Sour Grapes
The drama continues; I shall have to hawk this around my colleagues because it doesn’t seem to me to square with what I’ve been told… blogs.xensource.com I can categorically state that Grandinetti’s statement is an outright fabrication and utter nonsense. XenSource has never made such an announcement, and would never do so. In my view…
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How To Shoot Your Commercial Open Source Project In The Head
So there’s this software – Xen – which is an open-source virtualization solution embraced by the free unixes and linuxes as a non-proprietary solution for running multiple operating systems as “guests” under a “parent” installation. In short: an open-source competitor to EMC’s VMware. Some bright spark at XenSource – the administrators of Xen – has…
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Randall Schwartz is Free
I have considerable interest in this case, as you may guess from the content. I am very happy this has happened, but gods – 12 years is a punishment even if it ends in expungement… news.com.com.com.com A former Intel contractor has seen his conviction for hacking into the company’s systems expunged, after a battle lasting…