Would someone just buy that man a toupee?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007David on the
Archive for October, 2007
Seagate dumps Limavady Plant: opportunity?
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007BBC News LinkMore than 900 workers losing their jobs at a County Londonderry computer company are to receive details of the redundancy terms being offered to them. Staff at Seagate in Limavady were told on Monday they were losing their jobs. Seagate, which has received £12m from Invest Northern Ireland ...
BECTA says “Microsoft is anti-competitive”
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Yeah, there's a certain "Duh!" about the headline... The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices. The government agency has complained to the Office of Fair Trading. The article is on the BBC News site. The reasons being: a spokesman for ...
Just do it.
Monday, October 29th, 2007% defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES % killall Dock [This is a hint to take away the daft reflections in the Leopard Dock]
you’re too stupid to own a computer
Sunday, October 28th, 2007John Welch writes (in his Oc 27th entries) about
Small steps…
Friday, October 26th, 2007[[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:_attachmentStorageDirectory withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:nil]; NSLog(@"Directory created!"); Anyone who knows me, knows I'm not a programmer. I speak Hello World in about 8 languages. Not very impressive. I've been able to hack a little php and javascript in the past and ...
And the winner is…
Friday, October 26th, 2007John Battelle writes on the recent investment into Facebook from Redmond giant Microsoft. Microsoft invested $240 million and got a measly 1.6% stake (and likely the guarantee they're going to be the advertising supplier for the Facebook platform). The real upshot of this is that Microsoft just verified the wild ...
Upcoming nerdiness
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Damien Mulley pointed out some of the following:On Tuesday, October 30th 2007 The “possibilities for a post Web 2.0 world” will be explored iby Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist with Amazon. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, the company’s distinct technology arm, which allows developers to build ...
Getting Creative
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Steven Aitchison writes on his three pillars of creativityDo it aloneDo it with available tools and materialDo it anytime, anywhere Do it alone This is more a criticism of committees. You can certainly brainstorm with a few people to be creative but using these as springboards for ideas and not as decision ...
Pissed off and it’s only 09:17 am.
Thursday, October 25th, 2007A rather stupid young woman in a red VW Polo (OXI 3333) clipped my rear wing and mirror and then drove off. Grrrr.