As part of my plan^* I find myself in need of a hosted virtual machine. The requirements are not very high, a few hundred MB of RAM, 20Gb or so of HD space and an IP address to itself. I'd be happier with a virtual machine than sharing an existing …

So Universal have decided it might be worth allowing customers unlocked music. Of course mp3's are still problematic from a free software point of view but it's definitely a step in the right direction.

Cleaning the hob in my kitchen was not the most exciting thing I did last night. During my visit to Asda to pick up the legion of cleaning products and bin liners I needed for my task I also picked up a copy of the "Official Playstation Magazine" which had …

The conference has been going well. I haven't had much downtime though as the last two nights have had welcoming parties or BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions. The talks as you might expect have all been quite technical and geeky. Last night was IBM's Cell BoF session which was …

I had a few drinks at the welcome shindig last night but then crashed pretty early (or by my bodies recking, very very late). The first day has been full of some interesting stuff. I've given up on note taking instead preferring to take notes on the laptop. This does …