I’m really happy that I’m starting to see articles questioning the marketing value of social media. I’ve been using social media for over a decade, since before people used the term ‘social media’. As I say in my Twitter bio, I ‘live on the internet’. I’ve met my wife on the internet, and so on, [...]
I’ve been on a mobile/iPhone webapp kick lately. It seems like a nice area to work in, and it’s forced me to pick up a lot more JavaScript than I had before which is good. There are some amazing frameworks for making iPhone webapps. The first one I came across was jQTouch, which is a [...]
The Conservative Party has been desperately trying to rebrand itself. It’s a modern ‘caring’ party. This isn’t the party that fucked over half the country during the 1980s, oh no! It’s not the party of Section 28 any more. At a first glance, you could believe it. David Cameron has spent a lot of time [...]
It’s election time in the UK. This will probably not be the last political post I make here in the next few weeks. At least this one is still heavily tech-related. It’s about the Digital Economy Act, which I wrote an angry letter to my MP about. (Incidentally – no response to that latter, although [...]
I’m a picky eater. I have a very limited range of foods that I can eat without making comedy ‘that’s disgusting’ faces. I’m not like the guy on ‘Freaky Eaters’ who only eats cheese, but it’s definitely far less than a normal range. For the last 30 years it’s not really bothered me that much, [...]
This weekend I’ve been working on an iPhone app which is entirely HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I’ve been missing script/server as an easy way to spawn a web server for testing on an iPhone. There’s a Python one-liner I usually use for this sort of thing, but I don’t otherwise use Python and figured it [...]
Dear Willie Rennie, I’m deeply disturbed that despite a three-page letter you sent in reply to my query concerning the controversial Digital Economy Bill, you did not make the effort to attend the second reading of this bill on the evening of the 6th of April. This bill is being pushed through despite potentially draconian [...]
We recently tried an experiment in selling stuff on the internet. It was a bit of a departure from our normal area of expertise, so it was definitely heavy on the ‘experiment’. I’ll say it right at the start: it was a complete and unmitigated failure, but not in the way I was expecting at [...]
I gave a talk about Adhearsion, the Ruby VoIP framework that interfaces with Asterisk, to ScotRUG. You can see the video on Vimeo. The talk wasn’t too well-prepared, in particular I hadn’t tested to see if Asterisk was working properly on my netbook. Of course, it wasn’t, and so I couldn’t do a demo. The [...]
Apple launched the iPad and it was pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting. Depending on what model you buy it’s either a giant iPod touch or a giant iPhone, and I agree with Fraser Speirs – it’s the future of general-purpose computing devices. And that makes me so sad. I touched on the reason [...]
