Archive for March, 2006
Monday, March 13th, 2006
Dave Winer just put of a post about how he's going to stop blogging.
His reasons: Blogging doesn't need him any more?
I've never agreed 100% with Dave on things, which is okay because, well, he doesn't know me and he's a famous internet software developer. He said some things back in ...
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
I just saw a cool video. And no, I can't post it publicly yet. It's not pretty enough.
The synchronisation works, outputs to a web view and it all happens with some button clickage.
As the product moves ever out of the area of "vapourware" and into a definite product, things will ...
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Stray Toaster announces a CampFire meeting for the Northern Ireland Blogerati.
CampFire I find interesting as it's some of those smart 37signals people who've wrapped IRC in a web GUI and put a big "Chat for Business" label on it. Other than that - why bother? It's enchanted some people (you ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
We've just spent 2 days on the phone arguing with Airtricity and Northern Ireland Electricity.
We signed up with Airtricity in November. Cool, now getting electricity from renewable resources. Then BOINK - we get a bill from NIE. Turns out Airtricity haven't done the due diligence.
And of course, Airtricity have not ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
ZDNet published a very misleading article today announcing that Mac OS X had been hacked in under 30 minutes in response to a "Hack My Mac"-type challenge. It differs to previous "Hack My Mac" challenges however in that the "hackers" were given local access. In other words, they already had ...
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
Two recent developments in the Mac world indicate Apple is addressing new markets.
First - the Mac mini. The latest release of the mini shows that Apple is serious about this form factor. They've added gigabit ethernet, it has wireless out the wazoo, it's available with a dual-core processor and ...
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
George Ou takes Paul Murphy to task for denying George's allegation that Mac OS X is less secure than Windows because Mac OS X has had 238 reported vulnerabilities in the last year as opposed to 95 for Windows XP. Sounds bad huh?
Why on Earth would we prefer to be ...
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
The Nitro project has created a core team of developers, and I've been nominated as one of them. That project is really starting to go places now: there's a lot of vitality in the code base, and a lot drive to clean things up and get documentation rolling to ...
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
A while back, I said to Aidan that we'd spill some beans on 1st March. For the last few months we've been operating in "stealth mode". This is where you don't talk much about your product. Rick Segal (that Microsoft millionaire guy) says Stealth mode must be valley speak for ...
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