As part of my impending move I've been decentralising a lot of tasks. One of my central points of failure is my CVS repository. It proves really handy to have a version controlled repository where you store your customisations, especially when you come to a new machine. I've been converting …

Today's geek link reviews a bunch of user interfaces. These go beyond the bling of a Mac desktop. My particular favorite is the reactable system. Follow the links from the stories for some demo movies.

The breaking news today is perhaps one of the greatest arguments against allowing a government to maintain ubiquitous cross-departmental database of it's citizens. The guilty party today was HM Revenue and Customs who store quite a lot about you. The politicians have been pretty vauge about exactly what fields have …

Regular readers will have noticed the blog has had an unusually taciturn nature over the last few weeks. This has been because life and career changes are in progress and I wasn't quite ready to go fully public until the paperwork was out of the way.

The headline is that …

There is a long post brewing but I haven't had a chance to commit it to (electronic) paper yet. In the meantime publishing has never been easier with Google Docs. As demonstrated by the current Baby Sweepstake.