…British Democracy, at least as this latest round of Tory party shenanigans and back-biting continues. Don’t mistake me here, I’m no fan of Iain Duncan Smith, but watching this debacle of a party attempting to anonymously stab this man in the back is ridiculous, because the main looser here is the British Democracy, as our [...]
I’ve just spent an hour and a half watching a presentation from the Computer History Museum: How databases changed the world. Featuring some big names from the database world: Chris Date, Herb Edelstein, Bob Epstein, Ken Jacobs, Pat Selinger, Roger Sippl and Michael Stonebraker, with moderator George Schussel. Quality stuff, if with a little long winded [...]
A great interview with Steve Wozniak here. It’s part one of two, so stay tuned for part two. Update. Part 2.
I’m about two thirds of the way through “Just for fun”, by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. In a nutshell it’s Linus’s story of how Linux came about. It’s a story I’m more than familiar with, having been using Linux since 0.99pl11 or somesuch, back in 1993. I think I even e-mailed Linus at some point [...]
I used to work for a dot com (beenz). I’ve noticed over the last six to twelve months, that there is a very rapid degrading of dot com names.
