Cuttings

This is an interesting article about a photographer, her photos, an unscrupulous company(allegedly) and how Yahoo/Flickr are morons(not allegedly). Recently I was told what the first image on the web was. As you all know the world wide web was developed at CERN in Geneva. As a large particle physics laboratory the first image is… Read More

We’ll see..

.. so I’m down one MacBook. It’s off with the lovely people in the Apple store in Regent St being looked at. They are replacing the keyboard etc and as long as there is no damage due to my orange juice it will be all free so fingers crossed but I didn’t notice anything other… Read More

10 Pieces

BWHAHAHA: http://kotaku.com/gaming/… This is a really good article on who invented video gaming as we know it 40 years ago. It reminds me of a book called Game Over I read years ago which came free with Arcade a multi platform games magazine I’d link to it but the only book I can find online… Read More

Good idea, bad idea

So I went to see Spiderman 3 at the weekend. I’ve had drunken conversations about this film with nerds and we all agreed that there COULD be issues with the villain count and the fact he needs to gain and lose the new suit before a particular villain can even be introduced. Now for me… Read More

God is empty

So I’m still in Manchester with work at the Open Grid Forum and Enabling Grids for E-scienceE User Forum. It’s been kind of fun at the end of the day but the actual day is LONG usually starts before nine and ends around half seven. After that we go eating and drinking which is good.… Read More

Check my vital signs…

So in case you didn’t know I organised a press conference (with other people, too many other people) and it is getting a smattering of press coverage(it helps when Sir Alan Sugar is present): Jack Schofield’s Blog(Guardian Online) The Register The Evening Standard Channel 4 News (Online) The Sun The Daily Record The Sun piece… Read More