Everything the iPhone is not

Posted on Thu 15 February 2007 in geek

Unfortunately including having hardware available now. However when they do start rolling out I want one. There have been Linux phones before (mostly in the far east). But they still tend to be locked down creations. The OpenMoko is aiming to be the worlds first truly hacker friendly phone. I …


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Linkification Day

Posted on Wed 14 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with politics

A selection of links for everyone today. First off all one from the Guardian predicting the imminent death of SCO. While I have some sympathy for the normal working Joe's that will loose their jobs I'll still be having a party to celebrate the death of SCO and their ill …


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Recreational Coding

Posted on Tue 13 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with development

I had an itch to scratch yesterday for which I engaged in a little recreational programming. I'm toying with making this a full project because it seems to be a niche not currently filled by any FLOSS.

What I need/want is an intelligent configurable auto-sync daemon for my desktop …


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Data Pimpage

Posted on Mon 12 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with politics

A friend of mine has organised a panel debate on the subject of :"Free our Data". The blurb runs as thus:

"Should social researchers have unlimited access to the data that Government collects about individual UK citizens? Would the benefits of better evidence on which to base social policy outweigh …


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Reality Resumes

Posted on Mon 12 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with politics

After a very pleasant weekend I am back to the grind. I spotted a bit of a flaw in my assumptions at the end of last week which called into question the use of templates for my static compile tables. Luckily today's re-factoring of my code seems to have worked …


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