I love my HTC Hero and growing number of applications that are available for it. However the marketplace really doesn't make clear the difference between free (as in beer) and free (as in freedom). For all sorts of reasons I'd like to be sure the code running on my new …

Last week there were two Twitter Storms that kicked off around the Trafigura toxic waste dumping and Daily Hate's predictable sewer journalism. I'm still to be convinced about the long term future of micro-blogging and prefer the more wordy proper blog as a vehicle for discussion and debate. With that …

I cheated today and drove the car the stones throw from home to work. Since the bike suffered it's catastrophic failure I've been walking the 7 miles a day which I hope is more beneficial from a calorific point of view than the shorter time spent cycling. However if I …

Last night's Electric Dreams moved into the far more memorable territory of the 80's. While I slowly wound Fliss up with statements like "we had one of those.. and those! ... " I had a flood of nostalgia for birth of the home computer. I was surprised the family chose the BBC …

Now we have a working* broadband link to the outside world the house is almost fully commissioned. There are a few final cabling/routing details to be sorted once the microwave up-link is installed and the house will be fully armed and operational. Now all I need to do is …