Archive for November, 2006

SyncBridge: no new registrations due to system changes

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

We're preventing new registrations for the time being as we implement some changes. We're not happy with the performance of Ruby with our database queries even on the new server and so we're going to be doing some extensive back-end changes. We've also extended our free registrations until the end of ...

Second Life: the gateway to 3D UI? Um, no Ted.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

On the Ogle Earth blog (about Google Earth), they write: "3D is the next big thing for computers — even operating systems are going 3D — and I think that this trend will facilitate new ways of navigating." which echoes what James was saying in the comments for the last post on ...

But what about Virtual Virtual Offices?

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Okay....so onw of the guys came up to me and asked me if I'd heard of something called "Second Life". I sighed. Deeply and with the ennui of someone who reads a lot of blog feeds. So what is it? Well, it's the SIMs with more sex. And advertising. I mean it's like ...

Virtual Office BAAAAAD

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

James asks Can the virtual office ever emulate a shared physical space? As a card carrying proponent of Bedouin workspaces, I'd have to say yes. James mentions Alan O'Rourke who seems to be missing the fag breaks and water cooler chats of the pre-Web 2.0 world. I'm not a smoker and the last ...

Thallium Spy dies in hospital

Friday, November 24th, 2006

"Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-Russian spy who said he was the victim of a poisoning, has died in hospital." Litvinenko fell ill on November 1 after a series of meetings in central London. Initial reports from UCH at the weekend said Mr Litvinenko had been poisoned with the heavy metal thallium. Some of ...

Mobile Phone Operators are shit. All of them.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

I got a nice notification about the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Modem which costs £49 and offers service plans from £25 to £95 a month. It works with the Mac, looks vaguely MacLike (well, it would look okay beside a white MacBook)... So, the plans, £49 for the modem and £25 ...

A year late for Universal bitching

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

It's nearly a year since Apple released their first Intel machines for consumers and over a year since developers were able to get their hairy mitts on Apple-branded hardware with Intel processors. We've been aware of the structure of Universal Binary applications for ages and we've accepted that for ease of ...

“Gateways” not “Gatekeepers”

Monday, November 20th, 2006

James at EirePreneur gets a ribbing for posting a list of "Experts" and not including any women on it. A finger was also pointed at Damien Mulley which, to my mind, represents the most ludicrous thing I've read this week. From these posts by Damien and James, Annette infers that "women ...

SyncBridge at it’s new home

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Man, that was a tough couple of days but SyncBridge is now in it's new home and the performance load on is soooo much more comfortable. DNS is moved, certificates done and email is receiving and sending fine! The new hardware, Juggernaut, was so quick that when building the environment we ...

Trust

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

This isn't about Bedouin, Blogging or Software Development. I'm angry. This is regard to a complaint raised against the North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust regarding the treatment of one of their patients, a young adult with special needs. This young man is under the total care of the Trust ...