There are two people who probably don’t know it but to them I owe most of what I know about computer programming. One of them is Dave Winer. I learnt to program using BASIC in the early 80’s but I learnt to love programming when I discovered Frontier in the mid 90’s. Ah those were [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Fancy a cuppa?
If your hot beverage of choice is tea rather than coffee then head on over to the Rare Tea Company. Henrietta Lovell, the proprietor sells the most amazing teas and she’s a jolly nice person to boot, happy to chat about her selection of teas to help you make a choice. I can recommend them [...]
CD cover meme
For my birthday today (yeah, 43, who’da thunk it) my brother emailed me the CD cover meme. Being a bit of a music fan I like this meme very much. The idea is that by following 3 simple rules you generate your own CD album cover via the synchronicity of random selection, or something like [...]
RSS microblogging vs Twitter et al
You know the thing that puzzles me about services like Twitter and Jaiku et al, sometimes referred to as microblogging applications, is that you have to use a central server or service to create and distribute your Tweets or microbloglets or whatever-you-call-thems only to have them converted to RSS and syndicated. Why not just use [...]
Twittering
A questions for compulsive twitterers, do you ever think anything you don’t twitter?