Posted on Mon 14 March 2011 in geek • Tagged with earthquake, japan, nuclear, science
Let me start by saying that I in no way want to minimise the horror the Japanese have been going through. By any standard the recent earthquake has a big one. Despite their advanced technology and modern 21st century infrastructure there isn't a lot more they could have done to …
It's been a while so I thought I'd push out a new version of Edit with Emacsto the interwebs. Unfortunately I wasn't able to wrangle the edit-server.el to reliably handle keeping the current frame open for iterative editing. For now this feature is only available via the python …
Posted on Wed 23 February 2011 in geek • Tagged with book, review, rms
I've just finished reading Free as in Freedom a biography of Richard Stallman the founder of the free software movement. The title takes it's name from the oft repeated statement used to highlight that software freedom is not about the price rather what you can do with it.
The book …
Posted on Mon 17 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with codecs, google, h264, open, standards, video, web
A lot of 'net comment has been generated in the last few days following Google's announcement that they will be dropping support for H.264 in future versions of their Chromium browser. They expound on their decision here.
In making this move they join the ranks of Mozilla in supporting …
Posted on Mon 10 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, facebook, privacy, twitter
Did you know every time you see a Facebook/Twitter/Social Media-de-jour button on a web-page it's reporting your visiting patterns to home base? If you thought Ad tracking was a worrying invasion of your privacy then just consider how much info Facebook has on you along with your browsing …