The presentations that Adriana and I did for The Mine! Project’s Google Tech Talk at the Google Campus earlier this year are now posted on the blog; I apologise that the audio on the first video is not original and had to be re-recorded, this was due to hardware issues* on the day. In the [...]
Tagged mineA message to the WebSecurityGuard team: Hi Guys, I took a look at your vendor dispute page – it took me several minutes to find it since I assumed there would be an actual link to it next to the data classifying my blog as a “phishing” site – but rather than fill in your [...]
I updated to iTunes 8.1 and wondered where my ffmpeg binary went; then I found this explanation, which was spot on: This may be useful to some people — I’ve solved my problem but it may bite others. My boot disk is partitioned. The boot partition was too small. I put /usr/local on another partition [...]
Tagged apple, bug, itunes, osxBen Hyde writes: The four horsemen of the digital apocalypse are cpu, storage, communication, and content, aka Moore’s law and his friends mean that costs are always falling, capablities are always increase, and displacement opportunities are always popping up. These are the drivers that keep pulling the rug out from under any industry that’s built [...]
Tagged ambient computing, cloud computingDarren over lunch today was asking “What is The Semantic Web?” This led to a long and wind discussion of the various philosophies, some people for, and some against, and (tongue in cheek) I summed up a lot of my feelings about the topic in a single sentence: Create documents which are machine-readable, and only [...]
So, I’m installing LaTeX on my iMac …
…is that people can hijack it, using Google. Enough said. (via Geoff)
Flickr user? Old Skool Flickr user who’s been with them for a long time? This morning, then, you’ll probably have been faced with a big glaring ugly splash screen like this: The people at Flickr probably have heard this, but in case not: boys, that’s a big oops. It’s bossy, ugly, and offers no value [...]