The current spat between Apple's Steve Jobs and Adobe has been amusing to watch from the sidelines. There is an irony in Apple having a go at Adobe for supporting a closed proprietary de-facto standard like Flash. Much as it pains me to say it on most of the points …

This weekend has mainly been filled with BarCamb 3. I had a modest part to play in it's running (watching doors, carrying stuff) but still had plenty of time to attend a number of interesting sessions.

This will be my third BarCamp event and it's nice to attend one on …

Yesterday I finished of what is hopefully the last testing release of the product I'm responsible for, assuming no major problems it will go gold soon. This means I can start on doing some new development work. The thing I'm working on next will be done in a scripting language …

As I've been mailing out invites I discovered a minor problem with my data.

My main email client is the fantastically functional mutt. It's terminal based but incredibly flexible. When it comes to mass sorting/searching your email it leaves GUI based clients standing. However now I'm a roving around …

I've finally gotten around to updating my personal GPG key. At the same time I've plumbed in the various bits I need into my mail client so it's a little easier to sign, encrypt, and verify GPG enabled email. Of course the super paranoid will want to check the public …