I spent some time pimping my Samsung NC-10 netbook over the weekend. I had been having problems with Firefox slowing down and becoming sluggish and unresponsive. A little digging around later and I unearthed the culprit as being the closed source Flash plugin. Although well behaved Flash applications like the …

I have the usefulness of Open Street Map before. Go and have a look at their coverage of your area compared to Google maps. If you think it was worth donating to Wikimedia's recent £6 million fund drive then space a thought for the hardware needed for Open Street …

True to Hofstader's law it took a few extra days to finish of my (unpaid) work at Essex University. You can see the final results here. It was essentially tweaking a psychology experiment to work in a different colour space and with some funky high dynamic colour range hardware. After …

Fliss has been playing with the king of the micro-blogging platforms Twitter. It something that has been making the news on a regular basis as more celebrities have accounts and more news stories break on it. I'm still not sure where it fits in in the social media pantheon. I …

I didn't really sleep last night. Not sure why but I suspect a combination of real ale and wine gave me a slight nagging headache and I couldn't shift my brain out of thinking gear*. The first time I gave up I went downstairs and made myself a hot chocolate …