It's been a few weeks since the latest was released onto an expectant world. I have to say all things considered its a blinder of a release. The "Awesome bar" is indeed made of Awesome and the whole browser has been on a much needed diet, uses less memory and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

It seems Jodrell Bank will be safe for the next next two years at least. Of course I still have questions about the general level of funding in science in this country but as it stands I think it's good news. I'm glad I wrote the letter to my MP …