The Data Firehose

Posted on Mon 14 July 2008 in geek

Via my other half.

One of the guys behind mySociety has been involved with a report on opening up government data. There is a consultation site which is soliciting ideas of what could be done if certain data was released. One of the ideas is something I've dreamed of having …


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Captive Hardware

Posted on Mon 14 July 2008 in geek

In the days when phones just made phone calls it was fairly easy to treat them as devices. Indeed my current phone is a pretty locked down Sony-Erricson K800i. However as phones become more capable and the potential services they can offer grows it becomes a more general device, and …


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Busy weekend

Posted on Sun 13 July 2008 in general

We got a lot packed into the weekend. Having taken Friday off we were able to blitz up to during the day and get the house ready for the party. Great turnout and it was good to catch up with so many people. Managed to vaguely in one piece enough …


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Context, Attributes and JSP

Posted on Thu 10 July 2008 in geek • Tagged with development, java, jsp

One thing that is rapidly becoming clear is a lot of different concepts get mixed together when you start playing with JSP. On the face of it it's a simple model, your JSP code get built into a Java class (of type servlet) which is a combination on normal Java …


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Missles everywhere

Posted on Thu 10 July 2008 in misc • Tagged with politics

Andy pointed me to the excellent Photoshop Disasters site a few weeks ago. It very quickly become a favourite feed. Today's example has slightly more political consequences than the usual digital nip and tuck which seems to be so routine these days. It's becoming increasingly common, who remembers the Reuters …


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