I've been thinking about the whole Twitter* thing recently having been trying it out for two months or so. I haven't much to add to my previous analysis other than spam will continue to be a problem in this new landscape and risks bogging it down.

From the start of …

I've mentioned distributed version control systems a few times. It was interesting note the advice that Savannah is giving about recovering from a recent disk crash. Both Git andMercurial based projects can restore from local repositories as they contain all the revision history within them. The centralised version control systems …

While browsing stackoverflow I (re)discovered Desktop Save Mode which I must of played with in an earlier emacs version and then disabled. My only gripe at the moment is watching emacs load everything in it's old face style before my magic new frame starts up. I suspect this is …

I've been experimenting with various micro-blogging sites for a week or so seeing if I could understand the hype. I have to say I'm starting to see the things it's good for. For example I've just been notified of the speakers impending resignation not by reading my news feeds but …

I went to a embedded conference today (re: sales pitch). It's been awhile since I've been exposed to salesperson snake oil but I thought it would be useful to see what the state of the art in the embedded world was like. All in all it was a useful event …