USB ‘thumb’ (or ‘pen’) drives are one of those low-profile technological developments that you mostly don’t give much thought to; but when you do you realise just how amazing they are. Back in 1989 I bought my first 20GB hard-drive for my first PC The drive was big (perhaps a bit bigger than a video-cassette [...]
One thing you’ll want to do if you change the location of your blog is to have your subscribers automatically pick-up the new location of your RSS feed. This post just documents a trick that I used recently to do this. If you are lucky enough to using an asp.net-based blogging tool then it is [...]
Interdictor blogging live from central New Orleans. The guy is the crisis manager for an ISP, and they have a generator and a fat pipe out to the net. The also have a police radio scanner and a webcam, and they’re reporting looting in the streets and rescue helicopters coming under fire. I really don’t [...]
New Orleans Times-Picayune is publishing breaking news in weblog format. It makes for a pretty disturbing read: destruction and death and misery. A lot of people have had their lives wrecked, and are going to be living like refugees for years to come. Why were so many people apparently too poor to be able to [...]
My normal policy is not to link to flash-based sites because I think it just encourages them. However, dontclick.it is snazzy enough to be an exception. Try it! I’ve see a few examples of gesture-based user-interfaces and, while this is one of the best looking, I’m still skeptical. Without primities (such as buttons, sliders, and [...]
It seems to have been a long time coming, but Atom has finally reached 1.0 status as an IETF standard. Lots of smart people seem to have worked hard to produce a high-quality result. Judging by this comparison of features, it certainly seems better than RSS 2.0. Unfortunately, I don’t see it gaining much traction [...]
Those not reading this in an aggregator will have noticed that I’ve made some fairly major changes. I’ve moved from the home-made CityDesk-based site to one based on Community Server. It certainly looks more professional. All the old content is there, although some of it might be incorrectly titled. Photos that were part of posts [...]
New Scientist has a report that IBM and the Ecole Polytecnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in Switzerland are getting together to produce a simulation of a whole human brain using a custom-built supercomputer. Apart from the sheer audacity of this project, what is interesting is that they intend to model individual neurons using a detailed bio-electrical [...]
Here is a list of programmes now available for download and/or podcast by the BBC.
Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
