Week to go

Posted on Thu 11 December 2008 in general

I'm entering my final week of work. Baring coming in on January the 5th for the official redundination notice my last day is the 18th of December. I'm not really going to think about any job hunting/career stuff until well past the Christmas holidays.

Luckily I seem to have …


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Wikipedia and the IWF

Posted on Wed 10 December 2008 in misc • Tagged with development

It seems the IWF have backed down in their attempt to censor Wikipedia. One of the reasons they cite is the unintended consequence more people having seen the questionable image since they pointed it out. This is sometimes referred to as the Streisand effect after Barbra Streisand's attempt to …


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iGenius!

Posted on Tue 09 December 2008 in geek

I've mentioned the iPhone once or twice before. Their last entanglement with the ASA, for overly blinging the iPhone "usage experience", got the ad pulled. However undaunted I have just seen the same ad with the rather apologetic light text on a light background "sequence has been shortened" tacked onto …


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Dell Sales Droids

Posted on Thu 04 December 2008 in general

In a further quest to decide on netbooks I offer the following:

15:20:01 Customer Alex Bennee Initial Question/Comment: Are there any plans to offer the better spec Mini 9 (1.3MP camera and 16GB SSD) with Ubuntu instead of Vista? 15:24:04 Agent DSD i am …

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It's all about the options

Posted on Thu 04 December 2008 in general

I went along to a see a prospective employer today for a "see what we do" visit. The company is still quite a young start-up with a small team of around 10 people. They haven't been going that long (the last two companies could be termed "late stage" start-ups having …


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