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31 August 2006
ODF Heats Up in Chile
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One of the ironies of the free software world is that it is global - development is carried out around the world, 24 hours a days - and yet ...
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On Faking It in the Web 2.0 Era
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This is so true: One interesting thing is - while its ludicrously easy to fake a resume, its actually pretty hard to fake a blog, because s...
Books Be-Googled
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I've not really been paying much attention to the Google Book Search saga. Essentially, I'm totally in favour or what they're ...
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Fighting Global Warming With Our Forks
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One of things I love is understanding how things fit together. Here's an interesting little, ah, tidbit : What many people do not know,...
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A Blogalicious Roundup
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With all the frenzied blogging activity that is going on, it's easy to lose track of who's doing what and why. That makes this Busi...
Why ID Cards Are Idiotic: the Internal Attack
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Sigh. When are people going to learn that creating super-databases simply makes them super-irresistible - not least to the people authorised...
Security Engineering - the Book
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I've mentioned Ross Anderson before in this blog, and my own failed attempt to interact with him. But I won't let a little thing l...
OpenOffice.org Premium
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Now here's an idea. Take something that's free, and add value to it without adding to the price. Enter OpenOffice.org Premium : Wh...
Why Analysts Are a Waste of Skin, Part III
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Because they admit it themselves. (Via TechDirt .)
Enter the Chumby
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A glorified alarm clock is not what you might expect to meet on this blog, but Chumby is rather different: Introducing chumby, a compact de...
30 August 2006
The UK Biobank Time-bomb
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It sounds so exciting, so good: UK Biobank is a long-term project aimed at building a comprehensive resource for medical researchers. The f...
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Amazon Goes Virtual
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I was deeply unimpressed when Amazon announced its Simple Storage Service ( S3 ), since I am not a developer, but the news that it is now ro...
It's a Bubble, but Not as We Know It.
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John Battelle's Searchblog has become a little, er, sparse recently: I fear his other projects are taking up rather more of his time the...
Inside a Freenigma
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Freenigma is something that I have sought for ages: a way to send encrypted email from my webmail accounts - without having to do all the h...
Zend, Zend, Zend
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News that Zend is picking up a fat bunch of VC dosh is no suprise: PHP is consisently one of the most popular options for the LAMP stack. ...
Desktop GNU/Linux: Hot and Not
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If there's a tech meme of the moment, it's the GNU/Linux desktop, and whether it's viable. I've weighed in with my own slig...
Wired's Wikified Wiki Words Work?
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This is one of those things that you just want to work. Wired has put up one of its stories - on wikis - to be freely edited by anyone. Or...
Open Source Audio Books
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A nice piece in the New York Times about audio books based on public domain titles. Two points are worth noting. One is the following co...
Free Software Directory Hits 5000...Almost
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The number "5000" may not be a canonical one to celebrate, but the news that the Free Software Directory is about to hit 5000 ent...
Testing, Testing....
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Normal service will be resumed shortly. Please note that some posts will be in the nature of catch-ups, and hence their content may well al...
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21 August 2006
Intermission
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There will now be a short intermission, during which albatross will be available from the usherettes. Normal service will be resumed on the...
19 August 2006
A Licence to Print...Licences
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Licensing lies at the heart of free software. Indeed, it could be argued that Richard Stallman's greatest legacy is the GNU GPL, since ...
18 August 2006
The Writely Way to Work
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For a while now, my daily desktop has been filled with almost nothing but Firefox windows, each of which contains a healthy/unhealthy half-d...
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Half the Web 2.0 Story
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Here's a clever idea: put together a list of the top 1000 or so Web 2.0 sites, ordered by traffic rank. What's included? For our p...
17 August 2006
Openness, "Terror" and 1984
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One of my earliest posts on this blog was about Craig Murray and how he was using his blog to get out into the open ideas and information...
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